Container for completed vote records during an election
For Unicode symbols with "ballot box" in their names, see Checkbox § Unicode.
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A ballot box is a temporarily sealed container, usually a 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. A ballot drop box allows voters who have received a ballot by mail to submit it for counting in a self-service fashion.
A ballotbox is a temporarily sealed container, usually a square box though sometimes a tamper resistant bag, with a narrow slot in the top sufficient...
Ballot stuffing, or "ballot-box stuffing", is the illegal practice of one person submitting multiple ballots during a vote in which only one ballot per...
governmental elections use pre-printed ballots to protect the secrecy of the votes. The voter casts their ballot in a box at a polling station. In British English...
Without revealing the votes, the voter folds the ballot paper in half and places it in a sealed box. This box is later emptied for counting. An aspect of secret...
ballotbox may refer to: Honduran fourth ballotbox referendum, a political initiative of Honduran president Manuel Zelaya Nicaraguan fourth ballot box...
BallotBox Bunny is a 1951 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoon short directed by Friz Freleng and written by Warren Foster. The cartoon was...
Armalite and ballotbox was a political catchphrase used to define the strategy pursued by Irish republicans from 1981 up until the 1994 IRA ceasefire...
audibly casts a single ball into the ballotbox under cover of the box, or of a combination of a cloth and the box itself, so that observers can see who...
used to display a checkbox. U+2610 ☐ BALLOTBOX U+2611 ☑ BALLOTBOX WITH CHECK U+2612 ☒ BALLOTBOX WITH X Tick-box culture Radio button Toggle switch (widget)...
four boxes of liberty is an 19th-century American idea that proposes: "There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury...
mark is also sometimes used for this purpose (most notably on election ballot papers, e.g. in the United Kingdom), but otherwise usually indicates "no"...
hand-counting, requires a physical ballot that represents voter intent. The physical ballots are taken out of ballotboxes and/or envelopes, read and interpreted;...
officer finds soiled or improperly printed. The spoilt ballot is not placed in the ballotbox, but rather is marked as spoilt by the deputy returning...
The Nicaraguan fourth ballotbox or Nicaraguan cuarta urna is a referendum or plebiscite proposed by Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega as part of a project...
totals for Box 13. Salas said he then watched as the names of individuals who had not voted were added to the tally sheet. "The Mystery of BallotBox 13". Washington...
Bethea, Charles (August 12, 2023). "Can "Cop City" Be Stopped at the BallotBox?". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved September 1, 2023. Pratt...
ballotbox emoji U+2611 ☑ BALLOTBOX WITH CHECK with its crossed variant U+2612 ☒ BALLOTBOX WITH X, but only Samsung also has the empty ballotbox U+2610...
the voting ticket before submitting the ballot to the poll worker, in a ballotbox, or on the computerized ballot. The building where the polling location...
count the votes and send a document recording the results and the ballotbox with the ballot slips inside it to one of 25 vote counting centers nationwide...
"no, I do not agree") as well as an indicator (for example, in election ballot papers or in maps as an x-marks-the-spot). Its opposite is often considered...
work in a similar way. In Argentina casting an envelope without a ballot in a ballotbox counts as a blank vote. In 1989 legislative election in Poland voters...
Chambers were also appointed, by secret ballot and in ballotbox, directed by the corresponding tables. These ballots were held following the general election...
the Internet (I-voting) or digital telephones, rather than a classical ballotbox system. Traditionally, e-referendum is organised by governmental bodies...
literal voting at the ballotbox; that foot voters are more strongly motivated to acquire relevant information than are ballot-box voters; and that decentralized...