The phrase "a sort of vote" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a decision-making process that resembles a vote but may not be a formal or traditional voting method.
Example: "The community meeting resulted in a sort of vote on the new park regulations, with most attendees expressing their preferences."
Alternatives: "a kind of vote" or "a type of vote".
"If the book is a garden-variety children's book, it serves as an opportunity to show support for the elected, a sort of voting by book purchase".
According to Joystiq, the stream's creator turned the chat function into a sort of voting system.
In fact, Hillary for Nevada is hosting a "caucus convention"—a sort of dress rehearsal for the February 20 vote at the East John Street office this Sunday.
The Guardian is highly unusual in allowing staff to hold any sort of vote on their next boss.
The dominant Pushtuns, in particular, will feel aggrieved, since violence may make it impossible to hold any sort of vote in their areas.
In place since the early 1990's, the "against all" option has served as a sort of protest vote.
By the 90s, many political observers assumed that readers of rightwing tabloids were a sort of block vote, to be deployed en masse by proprietors as decisively as union members had been by their leaders during the 70s.
"It is rooted in the decentralized nature of the bitcoin network (and its reliance on a sort of majority voting), which is both its most ambitious feature and its main vulnerability". Velde is most critical of the governance structure of Bitcoin.
The same old leaking and briefing happens and politicians get tied up, in 'not not' answers: 'There is not not a reshuffle'; 'I don't not support the leader'; 'it's not, not a free vote, it's a sort of half free vote, but not free in terms of no costs or consequences, you know the other sort of free'.
Patricia Resnick, who wrote the film 9-5 – alsoalso contributed to a serious of columns from disgruntled voters on The Hollywood Reporter – says, "I can't see people supporting her as a sort of screw-you vote".
