English-Finnish translations for secret ballot

• salainen äänestys
  Parlamentissa on toimitettava salainen äänestys. This House is to hold a secret ballot.
  Tiedän, että se oli salainen äänestys, mutta emme tiedä, kenen puolesta olemme äänestäneet. I know it was a secret ballot, but we do not know for whom we have voted.
  Salainen äänestys ei ole sama kuin solmion vaihtaminen. One does not vote by secret ballot in the same way as one would change one's tie.

Definition of secret ballot

• The voting system involving ballots available only at official polling places, prepared at public expense, containing the names of all candidates, and marked in secret at the polling places

Synonyms

• Australian ballot

Related words

• secret
• secretive
• secretary
• secretly
• secrete
• secretariat
• undersecretary
• secretion
• secretin
• secretarial