| Allg. |
suffrage (the right to vote); franchise (the right to vote • Women did not get the franchise until the twentieth century); voice; vote ((the right to show) one's wish or opinion, e.g. in a ballot or by raising a hand etc, especially at an election or in a debate); fagot-vote; right of vote (Such Fellows retain the right of vote at General Meetings. | ... a right of voting at such election; for upon what ground could they be entitled to approach that House, unless as freeholders, who had a claim to a right of vote. Alexander Demidov); voting privilege; the right to vote |