What does "ballot" mean?
Ballot: 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. Dickens.
Additional senses
- 2.The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district. Ballot box, a box for receiving ballots.
- 3.To vote or decide by ballot; as, to ballot for a candidate.
- 4.To vote for or in opposition to. None of the competitors arriving to a sufficient number of balls, they fell to ballot some others. Sir H. Wotton.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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