noun. A sheet of paper or a card used to cast or register a vote, especially a secret one.

noun. The act, process, or method of voting, especially in secret.

noun. A list of candidates running for office; a ticket.

noun. The total of all votes cast in an election.

noun. The right to vote; franchise.

noun. A small ball once used to register a secret vote.

intransitive verb. To cast a ballot; vote.

intransitive verb. To draw lots.

To decide upon a question, proposition, or candidacy by casting ballots; take a ballot or a vote by ballot: often with for in the sense of ‘in relation to’: as, to ballot for members of a club. See the noun.

To bound, as in the bore of a cannon: as, spherical projectiles ballot in the bore of the piece.

To select by lot; draw lots (for): as, to ballot for places.

To vote for or against by ballot; choose or elect by ballot.

To choose by lot; select by drawing lots for.

noun. A small bale, weighing from 70 to 120 pounds.

noun. A little ball used in voting. Hence A ticket or slip of paper, sometimes called a voting-paper, used for the same purpose, on which is printed or written an expression of the elector's choice as between candidates or propositions to be voted for.

noun. A method of secret voting by means of small balls, or of printed or written ballots, which are deposited in an urn or a box called a ballot-box.

noun. A casting of ballots; a vote by ballot; also, the whole number of votes cast or recorded: as, a ballot was taken on the resolution; there was a large ballot.

noun. A method of drawing lots by taking out small balls, or the like, from a box; hence, lot-drawing.

transitive verb. To vote for or in opposition to.

intransitive verb. To vote or decide by ballot.

noun. Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting.

noun. 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.

noun. The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district.

noun. the official list of candidates competing in an election.

noun. the act, process or system of voting secretly; same as ballot{2}.

noun. a paper or card used to cast a vote

noun. the process of voting, especially in secret

noun. a list of candidates running for office; a ticket

noun. the total of all votes cast in an election

verb. to vote

verb. to draw lots

noun. a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative

verb. vote by ballot

noun. a document listing the alternatives that is used in voting

"Putting an initiative on the ballot is an important governmental act, and we hope the court does not decide that there is a right to do so anonymously."

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