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What is "ballot box"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ballot box
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Another ballot box was available at the central library.
▪ H.. Doing traffic engineering at the ballot box is fools' work.
▪ Haider and his followers have been gradually building their support at the ballot box for the past decade.
▪ Like everyone else, they will be able to pass judgment by means of the ballot box.
▪ No society which believes in democratic values can allow the ballot box to be overridden by the bomb and the bullet.
▪ They equally fear losing power through the ballot box.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ballot box

Ballot \Bal"lot\ (b[a^]l"l[u^]t), n. [F. ballotte, fr. It. ballotta. See Ball round body.]

  1. Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting.

  2. The act of secret voting, whether by balls, written or printed ballots or tickets, or by use of a voting machine; the system of voting secretly.

    The insufficiency of the ballot.
    --Dickens.

  3. The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district.

  4. the official list of candidates competing in an election. There are no women on the ballot. Ballot box,

    1. a box for receiving ballots.

    2. the act, process or system of voting secretly; same as ballot[2]. ``The question will be resolved by the ballot box.''

Wiktionary
ballot box

n. 1 A sealed box with a slit, into which a voter puts his completed voting slip. 2 The process or method of voting.

WordNet
ballot box

n. a box where voters deposit their ballots

Wikipedia
Ballot box

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.

Usage examples of "ballot box".

Then Drusilla came out, carrying the ballot box, the wreath on one side of her head and the veil twisted about her arm, and then Father came out behind her, brushing his new beaver hat on his sleeve.

Now you know why you must reject this evil dictator at the ballot box and vote for me!

So what we are doing is keeping track of every ballot box that has been rigged, stuffed or falsified in any way.

No goons had shown up with blackjacks, no cops were in evidence, and Benton had established full control of his turf around the ballot box.

Bush may have lost at the ballot box but he won where it counts, at the piggy bank.

Jackson folded his ballot and handed it to the Portuguese clerk, but that official paused before placing it in the ballot box, and in that moment Wild Whip was free to inspect the back.