teller vote
US Politics (now historical )
noun
(In the House of Representatives) a vote tallied by tellers as members file past them, without the names of the members voting being recorded.
- In 1970, an alternative system, sometimes referred to as a recorded teller vote, was introduced, in which members submitted voting cards marked with their names to the teller, enabling a record to be kept of each member's vote. After the introduction of electronic voting in 1973, teller votes became uncommon, and in 1993 the use of teller votes without recording of names was abolished..
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in The New York Times.