Ballot

A paper bearing the names of candidates for designated offices, and delivered by electors to the election officers in expressing their choice for such offices. It is usually printed, and is in various prescribed forms, especially in states which have adopted the Australian ballot system, or modifications of it. BALNEARII (Lat.) Those who stole the

Originally a ball used in voting; hence, a piece of paper, or other thing used for the same purpose; whole amount of votes cast. The act of voting by balls or tickets. Webster. A ballot or ticket is a single piece of paper containing the names of the candidates and the offices for which they are running. People v. Holden, 28 Cal. 136. See Election.

In the law of elections. A slip of paper bearing the names of the offices to be filled at the particular election and the names of the candidates for whom the elector desires to vote; it may be printed, or written or partly printed and partly written, and is deposited by the voter in a "ballot-box" which is in the custody of the officers holding the election. Opinion of Justices, 19 RI. 729, 36 Atl. 716, 36 L R. A. 547; Bris-bin v. Cleary, 26 Minn. 107, 1 N. W. 825; State v. Timothy, 147 Mo. 532, 49 S. W. 500; Taylor v. Bleakley, 55 Kan. 1, 39 Pac. 1045, 28 L. R. A. 683, 49 Am. St. Rep. 233. Also the act of voting by balls or tickets. A ballot is a ticket folded in such a manner that nothing written or printed thereon can be seen. Pol. Code Cal. § 1186. A ballot is defined to be "a paper ticket containing the names of the persons for whom the elector intends to vote and designating the office to which each person so named is intended by him to be chosen." Thus a ballot, or a ticket, is a single piece of paper containing the names of the candidates and the offices for which they are running. If the elector were to write the names of the candidates upon his ticket twice or three or more times, he does not thereby make it more than one ticket. People v. Holden, 28 Cal. 136.

— Joint ballot. In parliamentary practice, a joint ballot is an election or vote by ballot participated in by the members of bath houses of a legislative assembly sitting together as one body, the result being determined by a majority of the votes cast by the joint assembly thus constituted, instead of by concurrent majorities of the two houses. See State v. Shaw, 9 S. C. 144.

A ball or ticket used in voting; a paper embodying a vote; the act of voting by a ball or ticket; the whole number of votes so cast.

In thelaw of elections, A slip of paper bearing the names of the offices to be filled at the particular election and the names of the candidates for whom the elector desires to vote; it may be printed, or written, or partly printed and partly written, and is deposited by the voter in a “ballot-box” which is in the custody ofthe officers holding the election. Also the act of voting by balls or tickets. A ballot is a ticket folded in such a man. ner that nothing written or printed thereon can be seen. Pol. Code Cal. § 1186. A ballot is defined to ba “a paper ticket containing the names of the persons for whom the elector intends to vote, and designating the office to which each person 80 named is intended by him to be chosen.” Thus a ballot, or a ticket, is a singie piece of paper containing the names of the candidates and the offices for which they are running. If the elector were to write the names of the candidates npon his ticket twice or three or more times, he does not thereby make it more than one ticket. 28 Cal. 136.

' n. A ball or a ticket used in voting; a paper embodying a vote; also, the whole number of votes cast. v. To decide by voting. 1 Pitts V. Millar, ante, ' L. bilanx, having two scales, s Mc Williams w.'AUen, 45 Mo. 574 (1870). < Lopez V. Lopez, 23 S. C. 269 (1885); Skinner u. Lamp, 3 Ired. L. 165 (1842). » Evans v. Wain, 71 Pa. 74 (1872). May refer to the decision of a juror or jurors, or to the preferences of persons qualified to elect the oi Scers of a corporation or of a govermnent. In French dictionaries, defii^ed as " the act of voting by balls or tickets by putting the same into a * box or urn; " also as, " secret voting by means of a ball or tioliet." The word did not change its meaning when adopted into the English language.* As applied to elections of public officers, voting by ballot signifies a mode of designating an elector's choice of a person for an pffice by the deposit of a ticket; bearing the name of such person, in a receptacle provided for the purpose, in such a way as to secure to the elector the privilege of complete and inviolable secrecy in regard to the person voted for.^ Ttiis privilege of secrecy is the distinguishing feature of ballot voting. The object in view is the independence of the voter.= Voting by ba Uot is a constitutional method of voting which cannot be changed by a statute. Its perpetuation is meant to secure the right to vote without having the voter's opinion of men or measures inquired into.' See Test, Acts. The natural import of " balloting at a national, State, or municipal election" is, balloting in and for the election of national. State, or municipal officers. The expression will not apply to ballots casts for or against a regulation like that of granting licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors.* Ballot-box. A receptacle for ballots; more precisely, such receptacle as is authorized by law. " To stuff a ballot-box " means unlawfully, fraudulently, and clandestinely to place in a ballot-box, at a lawful election, ballots which have not been voted, with intent to affect the result of the election.^ See Election, 1; Vote. BAN; BANXf." Public proclamation or notice. Banns of matrimony. Publication, by oral announcement, of an intended marriage, in a church or public chapel. 'State V. Shaw, 9 S. 0. 138 (1877); Williams v. Stein, 38 Ind. 92 (1871). ^Brisbin v. Cleary, 26 Minn. 108 (1879), cases. Berry, J. See also Temple v. Mead, 4 Vt. S41 (1832); People v. Pease, 27 N. T. 45, 57 (1868); Williams v. Stein, Ss'lnd. 92, 95 (1871). 3 Attorney-General i). DetTOit Common Council, 58 Mich. 217 (1885). " Commonwealth v. Howe, 144 Mass. 145 (1887),— upon an indictment for casting more than one ballot, contrary to Pub. Sts. c. 7, § 57. 1 See R. S. § 5615; Exp. Siebold, 100 U. S. 379 (1879). Affords opportunity to interpose legal objection to the marriage.*