canvass vs recall

canvass

verb
  • To scrutinize (the ballot in an election or the votes cast) and reject irregular votes; also, to challenge or dispute (an election result). 

  • To seek the support of voters or a constituency in a forthcoming election or poll; to campaign. 

  • To thoroughly examine or investigate (something) physically or by discussion; to debate, to gather opinion, to scrutinize. 

  • To seek the support of (voters or a constituency) in a forthcoming election or poll through personal solicitation or public addresses. 

  • To seek or solicit donations, information, opinions, support, etc. from (people or a place) 

  • To debate, to discuss. 

  • To seek or solicit donations, information, opinions, support, etc.; to conduct a survey. 

noun
  • A seeking or solicitation, or determination, of support or favourable votes in a forthcoming election or poll. 

  • A scrutiny of the votes cast in an election to reject irregular votes; also, a tally, audit, and certification of votes. 

  • A seeking or solicitation of donations, information, opinions, support, etc. 

recall

verb
  • To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote. 

  • To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc. 

  • To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc. 

  • To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect. 

  • To call again, to call another time. 

  • To request or order the return of (a faulty product). 

  • To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order). 

noun
  • Memory; the ability to remember. 

  • The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search. 

  • The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive Party for certain cases involving the police power of the state. 

  • Request of the return of a faulty product. 

  • The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters. 

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