ballot 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) intransitive verb [imperfect or past participle Balloted; present participle or verbal noun 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 transitive verb 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.