Ballot
['bælət]
Definition
(noun.) a document listing the alternatives that is used in voting.
(verb.) vote by ballot; 'The voters were balloting in this state'.
Checked by Keith--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Edited by Ingram
Definition
n. a little ball or ticket used in voting: a method of secret voting by putting a ball or ticket into an urn or box.—v.i. to vote by ballot: to select by secret voting (with for): draw lots for:—pr.p. bal′loting; pa.p. bal′loted.—ns. Bal′lotage in France the second ballot to decide which of two candidates has come nearest to the legal majority; Bal′lot-box a box to receive balls or tickets when voting by ballot.
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Examples
- I have heard people maintain that: it makes no difference whether women want the ballot, or are fit for it, or can do any good with it,--this country is a democracy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In the Socialist party it has been the custom to denounce the short ballot. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Just as deceptive as plain fraud is the deceptive ballot. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But experience has shown that a seven-foot ballot with a regiment of names is so bewildering that a real choice is impossible. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- This incident of the short ballot illustrates the cleavage between invention and routine. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The old, crude form of ballot forgot that finite beings had to operate it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The ballot is at the utmost a beginning, as far-sighted conservatives have guessed. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The ballots had been thrown; they were all black, and Justine was condemned. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots make a democracy out of an illiterate people. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Edited by Julia