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/bˈælət bɑks/ Listen

noun

Ballot n.

Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting.

The act of secret voting, whether by balls, written or printed ballots or tickets, or by use of a voting machine; the system of voting secretly. "The insufficiency of the ballot."

The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district.

The official list of candidates competing in an election. "There are no women on the ballot."

Ballot box,

(a)

a box for receiving ballots.

(b)

the act, process or system of voting secretly; same as ballot (2). "The question will be resolved by the ballot box."

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Etymology of 'Ballot box'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ballot box" Quotes from Famous Books

... the Courts had failed to convict. And by his so doing had aroused an enmity, and determination from the lawless element to stop his utterances, even at the cost of his life, so when he attacked in his paper, one James P. Casey, a lawless character, gambler and ballot box manipulator and Supervisor, as having served an eighteen-months sentence in Sing Sing, N. Y., before coming to California, who also published a paper, "The Sunday Times," it brought matters to a crisis, for Casey taking offense at this and other attacks on his ilk, ...

— California 1849-1913 - or the Rambling Sketches and Experiences of Sixty-four - Years' Residence in that State. • L. H. Woolley