Ballot
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
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.