"voting machine" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: voting machines [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} voting machine (plural voting machines)
  1. Any machine used in place of a paper ballot. In the model used in the US the voters mark their choice by switching levers and then pulling the master switch to reset the machine and place their vote. Categories (topical): Machines, Politics Translations (machine used for voting): машина за гласуване (mašina za glasuvane) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 投票機 (Chinese Mandarin), 投票机 (tóupiàojī) (Chinese Mandarin), afstemningsmaskine [common-gender] (Danish), äänestyskone (Finnish), machine à voter [feminine] (French)
    Sense id: en-voting_machine-en-noun-hjgagV4i Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for voting machine meaning in English (1.8kB)

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