✳flâneur — a map of the web's best reading

Ballot - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org · 2,697 words · saved by 1 readers

A ballot is a device used to cast votes in an election and may be found as a piece of paper or a small ball used in voting.[1] It was originally a small ball (see blackballing) used to record decisions made by voters in Italy around the 16th century.[2] Each voter uses one ballot, and ballots are not shared. In the simplest elections, a ballot may be a simple scrap of paper on which each voter writes in the name of a candidate, but 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, this is usually called a "ballot paper".[3] The word ballot is used for an election process within an organization (such as a trade union "holding a ballot" of its members). The word ballot comes from Italian ballotta, meaning a "small ball used in voting" or a "secret vote taken by ballots" in Venice, Italy.[4] In ancient Greece, citizens used pieces of broken pottery to scratch in the name of th

Ballot - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Document used to cast votes in an election For other uses, see Ballot (disambiguation) . This article needs more citations . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . Find sources: "Ballot" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( October 2008 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) A pile of ballots used in the 2022 Latvian parliamentary election Part of the Politics series Voting Balloting Ballots Absentee ballot Provision

Explore this link on the map →

related reading