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absentee ballot

ballot cast by someone unable or unwilling to attend their assigned polling station
Class type of: ballot, voting method, electoral system Q596496

Facts

8 properties
Subclass of
ballot, voting method, electoral system[1][2][3]
Facet of
active suffrage[4]
Contributing factor of
electoral result, voter turnout[7][8]
Has characteristic
time limit[9]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
concrete/abstract disjunction anomalies[12]
Partially coincident with
postal voting[5]
Used by
citizen, citizen[6]
Uses
proxy, postal voting[10][11]
🏷️ Also known as
en mail-in ballot en proxy voting en mail-in voting en absence voting en absentee ballot ar اقتراع غيابي da brevstemme de Stellvertreterwahlrecht es voto a distancia fa برگه رای غیابی fr vote par procuration he הצבעה במעטפות כפולות ja 不在者投票 ja 不在者投票制度 ja 洋上投票 ko 부재자 투표 ms Undi tak hadir tr uzaktan oy kullanma uk бюлетень голосувальників, відсутніх на дільниці uk виборчий бюлетень відсутнього
🔖 Identifiers · 8
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85144421
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/absentee-voting
Freebase ID
/m/048mzc
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/1229dknj
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
absentee-voting
Lex ID
brevstemme
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007546373705171
Yale LUX ID
concept/bb1cc02d-b230-4f96-a955-ce07d612cfec

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🔗 Connections
Subclass of 2
electoral system, ballot
Uses 2
postal voting, proxy
← Uses 2
postal voting, early voting
Contributing factor of 1
voter turnout
Facet of 1
active suffrage
Has characteristic 1
time limit
Partially coincident with 1
postal voting
Subtypes 1
Demeny voting
Used by 1
citizen
← FactGrid item ID 1
Szczury
← Partially coincident with 1
postal voting
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  1. 20w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-06-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of Wikimedia project → concrete/abstract disjunction anomalies
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/36807|batch #36807]]: tag for concrete/abstract disjunction anomaly"
  2. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Uses → —
    Contributing factor of → electoral result, voter turnout
    Uses → proxy, postal voting
    Partially coincident with → postal voting
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007546373705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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