ballot

[bal·lot]

A ballot is document that lists the choices during an election. When running for office, a candidate’s first goal is getting on the ballot.

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

Noun
a choice that is made by voting; "there were only 17 votes in favor of the motion"

Noun
a document listing the alternatives that is used in voting

Verb
vote by ballot; "The voters were balloting in this state"


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

n.
The act of voting by balls or written or printed ballots or tickets; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets.

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

n.
To vote or decide by ballot; as, to ballot for a candidate.

v. t.
To vote for or in opposition to.


Ballot

Bal"lot , n. [F. ballotte, fr. It. ballotta. See Ball round body.] 1. Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting. 2. The act of voting by balls or written or printed ballots or tickets; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets.
The insufficiency of the ballot.
3. The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district. Ballot box, a box for receiving ballots.

Ballot

Bal"lot , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Balloted; p. pr. & vb. n. Balloting.] [F. ballotter to toss, to ballot, or It. ballottare. See Ballot, n.] To vote or decide by ballot; as, to ballot for a candidate.

Ballot

Bal"lot, 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.

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

To vote or decide by ballot; as, to ballot for a candidate.

To vote for or in opposition to.

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Usage Examples

Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that.

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

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Other Usage Examples

I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008.

I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.

First, take the government of the Indians out of politics second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites third, give the Indian the ballot.

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

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