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by a show of hands

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by a show of hands
[of a vote taken] expressed by people raising their hands. We were asked to vote for the candidates for captain by a show of hands. Bob wanted us to vote on paper, not by a show of hands, so that we could have a secret ballot.
See also: hand, show


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The delegates, by a show of hands, also rejected a petition to prevent the entire complex from being built on campus.
Their outdoor public vote by a show of hands is known as the Landsgemeinde.
For $400,000, residents voted by a show of hands to buy 61 acres of forestland and to place an agricultural preservation restriction on another 46 acres of the Schenck Farm.
 
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