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postal voting

voting in an election whereby ballot papers are distributed or returned by post
Class type of: voting method Q15044040
postal voting

Facts

8 properties
Subclass of
voting method[1]
Has use
early voting[2]
Facet of
active suffrage[3]
Has characteristic
time limit[6]
Has effect
increase[5]
Has goal
increase, prevention[10][11]
Partially coincident with
absentee ballot[4]
Uses
mail, absentee ballot, envelope[7][8][9]
🏷️ Also known as
en vote-by-mail en all postal voting en mail-in ballot en mail in voting en mail-in voting en postal vote en postal voting en vote by mail ar تصويت بريدي cs korespondenční hlasování cs volby poštou cs korespondenční volba da brevstemme de Briefwahl el Επιστολική ψήφος es voto postal es voto epistolar es voto por correo es voto por correspondencia fa رای پستی
🔖 Identifiers · 11
Library of Congress authority ID
sh2004014462
GND ID
4146615-9
BBC News topic ID
clm1e2edy3rt
BBC Things ID
c7f8f842-e7c4-4b18-b386-2b10804e3092
BabelNet ID
00433353n
EuroVoc ID
4760
Freebase ID
/m/04n7qg
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007535046005171
National Library of Korea ID
KSH1999004091
The Guardian topic ID
politics/postalvoting
Yale LUX ID
concept/bb1cc02d-b230-4f96-a955-ce07d612cfec

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🔗 Connections
Uses 3
mail, envelope, absentee ballot
← Uses 2
early voting, absentee ballot
Examples 1
Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey
Facet of 1
active suffrage
Has characteristic 1
time limit
Has goal 1
prevention
Has use 1
early voting
Partially coincident with 1
absentee ballot
← Handled, mitigated, or managed by 1
voter suppression
← Partially coincident with 1
absentee ballot
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  8. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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  1. 15w ago · Bencemac · 2026-07-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Facet of → active suffrage
    Subclass of → voting method
    Has characteristic → time limit
    Uses → mail, absentee ballot, envelope
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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