Usage Note
Wahlurne is the sealed box into which ballots are dropped, from Wahl and Urne (urn). It is feminine. The idiom an die Wahlurne gehen means to go and vote. The Latin Urne echoes the ancient practice of collecting votes in vessels.
Examples
"Pünktlich um acht wurde die Wahlurne versiegelt."
Natural Translation
Punctually at eight the ballot box was sealed.
Literal Translation
Punctually at eight was the ballot-box sealed.
Related Words
- Abgeordnete delegate
- Abgeordnetenmandat parliamentary mandate, MP's seat and commission
- Abstimmung vote
- Abstimmungsergebnis result of a vote, voting outcome
- Abstimmungsmarathon voting marathon; extended series of successive votes in parliament
- Abstimmungsverhalten voting behaviour (in a parliament or assembly)
- Amtsinhaber incumbent
- Amtszeit term of office
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