pull a lever
verbEtymology In reference to older voting machines where a lever was pulled to vote for each candidate choice.
1
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, lever.
2
Idiomatic To vote.
- She tried to pull a lever for the mainstream candidate and it wouldn't work.2007, Mark Crispin Miller, Fooled Again:
- You may dislike much about a candidate, but God calls us to make the hard choice and pull a lever for one or the other—even if it means voting less for a candidate than against another.2020, Stephen E. Strang, God, Trump, and the 2020 Election: