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Election Vocabulary

Abstention

Abstention - declining to vote either for or against

In our school elections we do you allow abstentions. Everyone must vote for or against.
We did a vote in our family, and my mother absented from voting.
There were many abstentions in the parliament in relation to the new tax laws.
How many people abstentions do you think there will be?
There were sixty votes for the bill, twenty votes against the bill and ten abstentions.

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