[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

ballot \bal"lot\ ba^l"lu^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
          ballot2. "the question will be resolved by the
          ballot box."
          1913 webster
see also:
ball ballot box ballot 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

ballot \bal"lot\ ba^l"lu^t, v. i. imp.  p. p.
   balloted; p. pr.  vb. n. balloting. f. ballotter to
   toss, to ballot, or it. ballottare. see ballot, n.
   to vote or decide by ballot; as, to ballot for a candidate.
   1913 webster
see also:
balloted balloting ballot 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

ballot \bal"lot\, v. t.
   to vote for or in opposition to.
   1913 webster

         none of the competitors arriving to a sufficient number
         of balls, they fell to ballot some others. --sir h.
                                                  wotton.
   1913 webster

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

ballot
     n 1: a document listing the alternatives that is used in voting
     2: a choice that is made by voting; "there were only 17 votes
        in favor of the motion" syn: vote, voting, balloting
     v : vote by ballot; "the voters were balloting in this state"
see also:
vote voting balloting 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

68 moby thesaurus words for "ballot":
   australian ballot, hare system, indiana ballot,
   massachusetts ballot, absentee ballot, aye, blanket ballot,
   canvass, canvassing, casting vote, counting heads,
   cumulative voting, deciding vote, division, enfranchisement,
   fagot vote, franchise, graveyard vote, hand vote, list system,
   long ballot, nay, no, nonpartisan ballot, nontransferable vote,
   office-block ballot, party emblem, party-column ballot, plebiscite,
   plebiscitum, plumper, plural vote, poll, polling,
   preferential voting, proportional representation, proxy,
   record vote, referendum, representation, right to vote,
   rising vote, sample ballot, say, secret ballot, short ballot,
   show of hands, single vote, slate, snap vote, split ticket,
   straight ticket, straw vote, suffrage, ticket, transferable vote,
   viva voce, voice, voice vote, vote, vote in, voting, voting right,
   write-in, write-in vote, yea, yeas and nays, yes

[6] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

ballot, government. a diminutive ball, i. e. a little ball used in giving 
votes; the act itself of giving votes. a little ball or ticket used in 
voting privately, and, for that purpose, put, into a box, commonly called a 
ballot-box, or into some other contrivance. 

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