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Definition of Ballot

Ballot Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting. The act of voting by balls or written or printed ballots or tickets; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets. The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district. To vote or decide by ballot; as, to ballot for a candidate. To vote for or in opposition to. Related Definitions: Act, An, Any, As, At, Ball, Ballot, By, Candidate, Cast, Decide, District, Election, For, Given, Hence, In, Number, Of, Opposition, Or, Originally, Printed, Secret, Secretly, System, Territory, The, Ticket, To, Used, Vote, Voting, Whole, Written

Ballot Quotations Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized. Ambrose Bierce The ballot is stronger than the bullet. Abraham Lincoln First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win. Donald Rumsfeld When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law? Benjamin Harrison Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that. Rose Schneiderman

Ballot Translations ballot in French is ballottez, ballottent, ballotter, ballottons ballot in German is Abstimmung {f} ballot in Norwegian is stemmeseddel ballot in Spanish is papeleta de voto

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