vote

The city council decided the matter should go to public vote.

The Supreme Court upheld the principle of one person, one vote.

Jol[ante]. In you, Sir, / I live; and when, or by the Courſe of Nature, / Or Violence you muſt fall, the End of my / Devotions is, that one and the ſame Hour / May make us fit for Heaven. // Server. I join with you / In my votes that way: […]

dissenting vote

i.e. in particular the differing opinion published with a judicial judgment considered as a source of information