ballot box

(noun)

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

Related Terms

Examples of ballot box in the following topics:

  • Types of Ballots

    • A ballot is a device used to cast votes in an election; types of ballots include secret ballots and ranked ballots.
    • The voter casts his or her ballot in a box at a polling station.
    • 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.
    • The ballot box is also designed to prevent anyone from accessing the votes cast until the close of the voting period .
    • Clear sided ballot boxes used in the Haitian general election in 2006.

  • The Purpose of Public Relations

    • Politicians use public relations to attract votes and raise money, and, when successful at the ballot box, to promote and defend their service in office, with an eye to the next election or, at career's end, to their legacy.

  • Making a Box Model

    • A box plot (also called a box-and-whisker diagram) is a simple visual representation of key features of a univariate sample.
    • A box plot (also called a box and whisker diagram) is a simple visual representation of key features of a univariate sample.
    • The box lies on a vertical axis in the range of the sample.
    • The width of the box is arbitrary, as there is no x-axis.
    • Produce a box plot that is representative of a data set.

  • Box Plots

    • There are several steps in constructing a box plot.
    • The 50th percentile is drawn inside the box.
    • Continuing with the box plots, we put "whiskers" above and below each box to give additional information about the spread of data.
    • For example, the box plots in Figure 6 are constructed from our data but differ from the previous box plots in several ways.
    • The box for the women is wider than the box for the men because the widths of the boxes are proportional to the number of subjects of each gender (31 women and 16 men).

  • Progressive Government: City and State

    • First, the secret ballot was introduced.
    • Prior to the secret ballot, ballots were colored papers printed by the political parties.
    • The secret ballot was introduced to prevent businessmen or politicians from coercing voters.
    • Initiatives allowed citizens to introduce legislative proposals at the state or local level through petitions that required political bodies to address areas of concern, or placed issues directly on the ballot.
    • Therefore, the direct primary was instituted, allowing the voters to cast ballots to nominate candidates.

  • Privacy Rights and the Right to Die

    • The state of Washington voters saw Ballot Initiative 119 in 1991, the state of California placed Proposition 161 on the ballot in 1992, Oregon voters passed Measure 16 (Death with Dignity Act) in 1994, the state of Michigan included Proposal B in their ballot in 1998, and Washington's Initiative 1000 passed in 2008.
    • Attempts to legalize PAD resulted in ballot initiatives and "legislation bills" in the United States in the last 20 years, as follows.
    • Voters in the state of Washington saw Ballot Initiative 119 in 1991.
    • The state of California placed Proposition 161 on the ballot in 1992.
    • The state of Michigan included Proposal B in their ballot in 1998.

  • Particle in a Box

    • The wavefunction must vanish everywhere beyond the edges of the box, as the potential outside of the box is infinite.
    • where n = {1,2,3,4...} and L is the size of the box .
    • Energy and position relationships of the particle in a box.
    • Inside the box the potential V(x) is zero.
    • Outside the box the potential energy is infinite.

  • When Consensus Cannot Be Reached, Vote

    • But before a vote can be taken, there must be a clear set of choices on the ballot.
    • Those same summaries can serve as prototypes for a ballot sheet, should a vote become necessary.
    • The actual content of the ballot is usually not controversial.
    • Occasionally a developer will object to the form of the ballot itself.
    • A good choice in most cases is approval voting, whereby each voter can vote for as many of the choices on the ballot as he likes.

  • Energy Density

    • Let's imagine that light is traveling through a small box.
    • How much energy is in the box at any time?
    • First it is easiest to think about how much energy in the box is traveling in a particular direction through the box during a small time interval such that $c dt$ is the length of the box,
    • This energy equals the energy that enters the box traveling in the right direction during the time interval $dt$,

  • Bi-partite data structures

    • The California Teachers Association, for example, gave donations in opposition to the 7th, 9th, and 10th ballot initiative, and a donation supporting the 8th.
    • Figure 17.2 displays a typical dialog box.