Assertion: ballot box's ballot | /r/CapableOf | reduce the cost of campaigning
Facets:
value: substantially
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: After several failed attempts (several of them spearheaded by George Grote), the secret ballot was eventually extended generally in the Ballot Act 1872, substantially reducing the cost of campaigning (as treating was no longer realistically possible) and was first used on 15 August 1872 to re-elect Hugh Childers as MP for Pontefract in a ministerial by-election following his appointment as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.