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But they were balloting to switch to a new model where visitors would pay £2 plus VAT per hotel room, within a designated area of the city.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2025

She said it was "unfortunate" that unions were balloting for industrial action.

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2024

To be sure, the Administration did decide to request the new funds on the morning of the day that Texans were balloting, but the decision was only a tentative one.

From Time Magazine Archive

The electors were balloting; but with the ballot,—so said the leader of the understrappers,—there never was any excitement. 

From The Way We Live Now by Trollope, Anthony

The Judge could see that in one or two cases delegations were balloting again.

From In the Heart of a Fool by White, William Allen