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Webster 1913 Edition

Ballot

Bal′lot

(băl′lŭt)
,
Noun.
[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.
The insufficiency of the
ballot
.
Dickens.
3.
The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district.
4.
the official list of candidates competing in an election.
There are no women on the
ballot
.
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
.”

Bal′lot

(băl′lŭt)
,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Balloted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Balloting
.]
[F.
ballotter
to toss, to ballot, or It.
ballottare
. See
Ballot
,
Noun.
]
To vote or decide by ballot;
as, to
ballot
for a candidate
.

Bal′lot

,
Verb.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Ballot

BAL'LOT

, n.
1.
A ball used in voting. Ballots are of different colors; those of one color give an affirmative; those of another, a (p.21) negative. They are privately put into a box or urn.
2.
A ticket or written vote, being given in lieu of a ballot, is now called by the same name.
3.
The act of voting by balls or tickets.

BAL'LOT

,
Verb.
I.
To vote by ballot, that is, by putting little balls of different colors into a box, the greater number of one color or the other determining the result.
2.
To vote by written papers or tickets.

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