secret ballot vs will

secret ballot

noun
  • The voting system involving ballots available only at official polling places, prepared at public expense, containing the names of all candidates, and marked in secret at the polling places. 

will

verb
  • To choose or agree to (do something); used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive), often in questions and negation. 

  • To instruct (that something be done) in one's will. 

  • Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall. 

  • To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document). 

  • Expressing a present tense with some conditional or subjective weakening: "will turn out to", "must by inference". 

  • To exert one's force of will (intention) in order to compel, or attempt to compel, something to happen or someone to do something. 

  • To be able to, to have the capacity to. 

  • To habitually do (a given action). 

  • To wish, desire (something). 

noun
  • One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands. 

  • Firmity of purpose, fixity of intent 

  • The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition. 

  • One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention. 

  • A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes. 

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