Ballot

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ballot \Bal"lot\ (b[a^]l"l[u^]t), n. [F. ballotte, fr. It.
     ballotta. See {Ball} round body.]
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     1. Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any
        printed or written ticket used in voting.
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     2. 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.
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              The insufficiency of the ballot.      --Dickens.
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     3. The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a
        given territory or electoral district.
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     4. the official list of candidates competing in an election.
        There are no women on the ballot.
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     {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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ballot \Bal"lot\ (b[a^]l"l[u^]t), 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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ballot \Bal"lot\, v. t.
     To vote for or in opposition to.
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           None of the competitors arriving to a sufficient number
           of balls, they fell to ballot some others. --Sir H.
                                                    Wotton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ballot
       n 1: a document listing the alternatives that is used in voting
       2: a choice that is made by voting; "there were only 17 votes
          in favor of the motion" [syn: {vote}, {voting}, {balloting}]
       v : vote by ballot; "The voters were balloting in this state"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  68 Moby Thesaurus words for "ballot":
     Australian ballot, Hare system, Indiana ballot,
     Massachusetts ballot, absentee ballot, aye, blanket ballot,
     canvass, canvassing, casting vote, counting heads,
     cumulative voting, deciding vote, division, enfranchisement,
     fagot vote, franchise, graveyard vote, hand vote, list system,
     long ballot, nay, no, nonpartisan ballot, nontransferable vote,
     office-block ballot, party emblem, party-column ballot, plebiscite,
     plebiscitum, plumper, plural vote, poll, polling,
     preferential voting, proportional representation, proxy,
     record vote, referendum, representation, right to vote,
     rising vote, sample ballot, say, secret ballot, short ballot,
     show of hands, single vote, slate, snap vote, split ticket,
     straight ticket, straw vote, suffrage, ticket, transferable vote,
     viva voce, voice, voice vote, vote, vote in, voting, voting right,
     write-in, write-in vote, yea, yeas and nays, yes
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  BALLOT, government. A diminutive ball, i. e. a little ball used in giving 
  votes; the act itself of giving votes. A little ball or ticket used in 
  voting privately, and, for that purpose, put, into a box, (commonly called a 
  ballot-box,) or into some other contrivance.