informal vote
Britishnoun
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In the weeks after an election, the Republican conference and the Democratic caucus hold an informal vote among their members to decide who they want to nominate to lead their party in January.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 2, 2023
One is, at one point we took an informal vote and remember how many people were sitting around the room but it was split.
From MSNBC • Jun. 11, 2019
And an informal vote taken by faculty in November found unanimous support for dropping him.
From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2016
During a recent informal vote, faculty members voted unanimously to leave the mascot behind.
From US News • Nov. 19, 2015
A significant incident to the general election was the informal vote taken, at the suggestion of The Wheeling Intelligencer, on Mr. Battelle's emancipation proposition which had been rejected by the Convention.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 by Various
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