What does ballot box mean?

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bal·lot box

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. ballot boxnoun

    a box where voters deposit their ballots

Wiktionary

  1. ballot boxnoun

    A sealed box with a slit, into which a voter puts his completed voting slip

  2. ballot boxnoun

    The process or method of voting

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  1. ballot box

    A ballot box is a container that is sealed and secure, typically used to hold votes or ballots during an election or vote. It is traditionally utilized in democratic processes to ensure confidentiality and prevent tampering in order to maintain the integrity of the votes cast. After voting is complete, the box is opened and votes are counted. Ballot boxes can also refer to a metaphorical or digital form of this system.

Wikidata

  1. Ballot box

    A ballot box is a temporarily sealed container, usually square box though sometimes a tamper resistant bag, with a narrow slot in the top sufficient to accept a ballot paper in an election but which prevents anyone from accessing the votes cast until the close of the voting period.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ballot box in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ballot box in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of ballot box in a Sentence

  1. Walter Bagehot:

    Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.

  2. Carly Fiorina:

    There are people in our party who are actually kind of horrified by Donald Trump. I'm one of them, we're going to have to beat Donald Trump at the ballot box. And the only guy who can beat Donald Trump is Ted Cruz.

  3. Raphael Warnock:

    I'm spending time trying to, hopefully, inspire these young people to commit to a lifelong practice of making sure their voices are heard, not only at the ballot box, but through activism and through public service.

  4. Michael Kearns:

    This is all a power grab for the ballot box in New York, trying to give illegals the right to vote.

  5. Idris Baluken:

    Instead of enthusiasm for the ballot box there is the silence of the coffins, less than a week to the election, and everywhere in Kurdistan is under the shadow of guns and the sound of warplanes.


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