(in the preferential voting system) a card issued to voters by a party or candidate indicating how supporters should mark their preferences on the ballot paper.
she stands outside the polling booth handing out how-to-vote cards
Example sentencesExamples
- Voters tended to brush past supporters of the major parties refusing to take how-to-vote cards or screwing them up in disgust.
- In the marginal seat, members and supporters handed out their how-to-vote cards.
- Party workers reported a record number of people who refused to take how-to-vote cards.
- They volunteered to work on polling booths and distribute how-to-vote cards.
- The senator was among those seen handing out how-to-vote cards.
- There are ways of dodging the How-To-Vote card mob.
- The objective would be to try to push through a referendum on four year terms with the crucial how-to-vote card backing of both major parties.
- They risk arrest and six months imprisonment if they hand out how-to-vote cards on election day.
- In the bigger missions such as in London or Dublin, party activists are planning to hand out how-to-vote cards.
- But the parties do try to send out how-to-vote cards to the diplomatic missions.