Definition of Ballots. Meaning of Ballots. Synonyms of Ballots

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Definition of Ballots

Ballot
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. --Sir H. Wotton.
Ballot
Ballot Bal"lot (b[a^]l"l[u^]t), 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. --Dickens.
Ballot
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.

Meaning of Ballots from wikipedia

- the election, different ballots may be used. Ranked ballots allow voters to rank candidates in order of preference, while ballots for first-past-the-post...
- each voter and ****ociated retrievable ballot numbers. Mail-in ballots do not meet the definition of Australian ballots, as they are distributed to voters'...
- candidate, political party, or ballot measure is entitled to appear on voters' ballots in elections in the United States. The jurisprudence of the right to candidacy...
- out of 205 provisional ballots cast in Broward County (a subset of the over 600 provisional ballots and 1.1 million total ballots cast in Broward) were...
- Pontefract. The original ballot box, sealed in wax with a liquorice stamp, is held at Pontefract Museum. The first paper ballots and ballot boxes in the United...
- million ballots were cast via mailed out ballots (about a quarter of all ballots cast). The number of people who voted early or with mail-in ballots set records...
- others, since the ballot is not always cast in secret; collection of ballots by dishonest collectors who mark votes or fail to deliver ballots; and insiders...
- because the ballot format itself limits the number of preferences that may be expressed. This results in "exhausted" or "inactive" ballots. For example...
- actually marked their ballots for Pat Buchanan or spoiled their ballots because they found the ballot's layout confusing. The ballot displa**** the list of...
- requesting and casting last-minute absentee ballots. In addition to the anti****ted high volume of mailed ballots, the prediction was due in part to numerous...