simevidas,
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In German and Croatian, vote = voice. It’s the same word.

🇩🇪 Meine Stimme an der Wahl.
🇭🇷 Moj glas na izborima.

In these languages, my vote in the election = my voice in the election.

robinbakker,
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@simevidas ✅
Also in Dutch 😀
🇳🇱 Mijn stem in de verkiezing

krinkle, (edited )
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@simevidas

From Wiktionary:
> voice, from [..] Old French (voiz). Displaced native [..] Old English (stefn) [..]

"stefn" came from Proto-Germanic stebnō, and would eventuelly become German "Stimme".

The same root entered English as "steven", and is still used in the idiom "even steven" (to have an equal voice/vote).

vote/voice share no root, but English does have "say" which can mean vote (I have no say in this, I have an equal say on the matter).

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice

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