Counterfoil in a sentence as a noun

You can still use counterfoil machines if you want to. You just accept all the risk.

Here in Canada, your ballot has a counterfoil with a number on it. That number is only removed immediately before you deposit your vote into the ballot box.

And when he voted he was given a numbered counterfoil. His voters’ roll number was written on the counterfoil stub which bore the same number. > ‘It is therefore possible for the voting slip to be related to the counterfoil stub, which then gives the man’s number on the voters’ roll,’ explained Van Den Bergh.

Counterfoil definitions

noun

the part of a check that is retained as a record

See also: stub