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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."

verb

Ballot v. t. To vote for or in opposition to. "None of the competitors arriving to a sufficient number of balls, they fell to ballot some others."

Ballot v. i. (past & past part. balloted; pres. part. balloting) To vote or decide by ballot; as, to ballot for a candidate.

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Etymology of 'Ballot'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ballot" Quotes from Famous Books

... Review (June 1922), "Hungary was situated amongst reactionary neighbours, and any loosening of her hold upon the non-Magyar population threatened her very existence. The path of spectacular liberalism was closed to her...." The ballot was supposed to be secret in the towns, where the Magyars could hope to exercise an appropriate control; but even in the towns they thought it more advisable to take no risks. Some of the dead were permitted ...

— The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 • Henry Baerlein

... tremendously effective with people already convinced, with the partisans who throng unwearyingly to hear the voicing of their own opinions. The ease with which such a speaker brings forward the great central fact of the universe, maternity, as an argument for or against the casting of a ballot (it works just as well either way); the glow with which she associates Jeanne d'Arc with federated clubs and social service; and the gay defiance she hurls at customs and prejudices so profoundly obsolete that the lantern ...

— Americans and Others • Agnes Repplier

... in order to obtain from it an increase in profits may not vote or hold office. Under that system the manufacturer who furnishes employment for a thousand men would be denied the ballot, while those in his employ could freely exercise the right of franchise. Under that system the farmer who hires a crew of men to help him harvest his crop is denied the franchise. Under that system the dairyman who hires a ...

— The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki - Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 • Joel R. Moore

... Germany or anything approaching it is very distant. First of all, the men must win a real ballot for themselves in Prussia, a real representation in the Reichstag. In the Germany of to-day, a woman with feminist aspirations is looked on as the men of the official class look on a Social Democrat, something hardly to be endured. And this is in spite of the fact that the nations ...

— Face to Face with Kaiserism • James W. Gerard

... and his friends decide to help him, they may proceed by forming a ko. A ko is composed of a number of people who agree to subscribe a certain sum monthly and to divide the proceeds monthly by ballot, beginning by giving the first month's receipts to the person to succour whom the ko was formed. Suppose that the subscription be fixed at a yen a month and that there are fifty subscribers. Then the beneficiary—who pays in his yen with the rest—gets 50 yen on the occasion of the ...

— The Foundations of Japan • J.W. Robertson Scott

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