'Ballot box' definitions:
Definition of 'ballot box'
(from WordNet)
noun
A box where voters deposit their ballots
Definition of 'Ballot box'
From: GCIDE
- Ballot \Bal"lot\ (b[a^]l"l[u^]t), n. [F. ballotte, fr. It. ballotta. See Ball round body.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The act of secret voting, whether by balls, written or printed ballots or tickets, or by use of a voting machine; the system of voting secretly. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- The insufficiency of the ballot. --Dickens. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district. [1913 Webster]
- 4. the official list of candidates competing in an election. There are no women on the ballot. [1913 Webster]
- 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." [1913 Webster]