The phrase "a clean vote" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a vote that is free from fraud, manipulation, or any unethical practices.
Example: "The election was praised for its integrity, ensuring that every citizen had a chance to cast a clean vote."
Alternatives: "an honest vote" or "a fair vote".
To prevent this from happening, 114 Democrats in April asked for a "clean" vote without conditions.
But the goal is far more than a clean vote without a violent aftermath.
The House is now expected to make a "clean" vote Wednesday on an increase in the nation's borrowing limit.
It is his promise all year that the Shays-Meehan bill would have a clean vote in the House.
The tragedy is that he would probably have won a clean vote: he is still the closest thing Afghanistan has to a national leader.
Representative Jim McDermott, a Washington Democrat who wants to go beyond Mr. Bush's limits, said flatly, "If we get a clean vote, I think it would pass -- narrowly".
In order to bail out of Section 5, a jurisdiction must have maintained a clean voting-rights record for the previous 10 years, a standard that Shelby County concededly can't meet.
Unless a covered jurisdiction gets itself out from under the act by showing a clean voting rights record for the previous decade, it will be required to seek federal permission for all its voting laws until the law is set to expire in 2031.
But consider the fate of a clean-vote television campaign aimed at persuading voters to resist coercive polling tactics, like those that have helped the governing party win every presidential election since the 1920's.
Likewise, if a voter accidentally votes for two candidates for the same job, such as president, and fails to ask for a clean ballot, the vote counts for neither of the candidates.
Mr. Fujimori has refused to postpone the election, as Mr. Toledo demanded after the publication of a report on Thursday by the Organization of American States saying that it could not guarantee a fair and clean vote on May 28 because there was insufficient time to test a new computer program designed to count ballots.
