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ghost vote

noun

Etymology

From ghost + vote.

  1. derived from *h₁wegʷʰ-✻ — “to promise, to vow”
  2. derived from vōtum
  3. compounded as ghost vote — “ghost + vote”

Definitions

  1. A valid vote that is counted in voting totals for an election, but which lacks any…

    A valid vote that is counted in voting totals for an election, but which lacks any associated public record as to who cast it.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ghost vote. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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