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punch-card ballots

Arabic translation: الاقتراع أو التصويت بالبطاقات المثقبة

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English term or phrase:punch-card ballots
Arabic translation:الاقتراع أو التصويت بالبطاقات المثقبة
Entered by: Amer al-Azem

05:04 Sep 24, 2003
English to Arabic translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Media / Multimedia / Media
English term or phrase: punch-card ballots
“A federal court cannot lightly interfere with or rejoin a state election”, said the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit , even after acknowledging arguments that punch-card ballots in some countries might cause some votes to be uncounted.
Amer al-Azem
Palestine
Local time: 14:53
بطاقات التصويت المثقبة
Explanation:
أو بطاقات الاقتراع المثقبة
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Fuad Yahya
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Summary of answers provided
5 +8بطاقات التصويت المثقبة
Fuad Yahya
4الاقتراع عن طريق ثقب البطاقات
Sami Khamou


  

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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +8
بطاقات التصويت المثقبة


Explanation:
أو بطاقات الاقتراع المثقبة

Fuad Yahya
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Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 192

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Shazly: الاقتراع أو التصويت بالبطاقات المثقبة
8 mins
  -> Indeed, in this instance, this is a more accurate reading of the text.
agree  Mueen Issa
1 hr
agree  Boushra Ezzideen
4 hrs
agree  Alaa AHMED
4 hrs
agree  globalvil
8 hrs
agree  ghassan al-Alem
13 hrs
agree  AhmedAMS
7 days
agree  radwa abdel ghany
12 days
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20 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
الاقتراع عن طريق ثقب البطاقات


Explanation:
The ballot is a system of secret voting. In this instance it voting by punching a voting card.

Here is a difinition:

ballot
a system or occasion of secret voting:
Representatives were elected by ballot.
They decided to hold a ballot.
Therefore, I will suggest:
الاقتراع عن طريق ثقب البطاقات


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Note added at 2003-09-24 05:41:25 (GMT)
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Correction:
In this instance it is voting by punching a voting card.

Sami Khamou
Local time: 07:53
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
PRO pts in category: 22
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