suffrage

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

The exercise of such a right.

A vote cast in deciding a disputed question or in electing a person to office.

A short intercessory prayer.

To vote for; elect.

A vote or voice given in deciding a controverted question, or in the choice of a person to occupy an office or trust; the formal expression of an opinion on some doubtful question; consent; assent; approval.

The political right or act of voting; the exercise of the voting power in political affairs; especially, the right, under a representative government, of participating, directly or indirectly, in the choice of public officers and in the adoption or rejection of fundamental laws: usually with the definite article.

Testimony; attestation; witness.

Eccles., an intercessory prayer or petition.