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Austral'ian bal'lot

a ballot containing the names of all the candidates for public office, handed to the voter at the polling station to be marked in secret: so called because it originated in Australia. Cf. Indiana ballot, Massachusetts ballot, office-block ballot.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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