ballot box
nounDefinition of ballot box
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: a box for receiving ballots
2
: ballot sense 2a
stuff the ballot box
chiefly US
: to attempt to control the outcome of an election by having multiple illegitimate votes cast in support of the desired candidate
They said the vote-rigging included stuffing ballot boxes, buying votes and absent names on the voter rolls.— Sonia Verma By a margin of just 277 votes (some say ballot boxes were stuffed), Brooklyn, the nation's fourth-largest city, had voted to give up its proud and independent history.— James Sterngold
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State lawmakers passed a bill that — starting in 2020 — allows New York voters 10 days of early access to the ballot box prior to any special, primary, or general elections. — NBC News, "9 states where the rules for voting have been changed or challenged ahead of 2020," 13 July 2019 The Trump administration has argued that the question was being added to aid in enforcing the Voting Rights Act, which protects minority voters' access to the ballot box. — CBS News, "Justice Department changing legal team fighting for census citizenship question," 8 July 2019 The Trump administration had said the question was being added to aid in enforcement of the Voting Rights Act, which protects minority voters’ access to the ballot box. — SFChronicle.com, "Trump says officials working on holiday on census dispute," 4 July 2019 The Trump administration had said the question was being added to aid in enforcement of the Voting Rights Act, which protects minority voters' access to the ballot box. — Christopher Keating, courant.com, "Connecticut Democrats hail U.S. Supreme Court ruling blocking citizenship question on census," 27 June 2019 Last month a fire ripped through a storage site for ballot boxes from eastern Baghdad. — Sinan Salaheddin, Fox News, "Iraq begins hand recount of May ballots from city of Kirkuk," 4 July 2018 When the ticket flopped at the ballot box, garnering 1 percent of the popular vote, the brothers pinned their political ambitions on the ascendant Reagan-era GOP. — Bill Hewitt, Washington Post, "David Koch, billionaire industrialist who influenced conservative politics, dies at 79," 23 Aug. 2019 When the ticket flopped at the ballot box, garnering 1 percent of the popular vote, the brothers pinned their political ambitions on the ascendant Reagan-era GOP. — Bill Hewitt, Anchorage Daily News, "David Koch, billionaire industrialist who influenced conservative politics, dies at 79," 23 Aug. 2019 Her letter, published amid the struggle against gendered discrimination at the ballot box, revealed rifts in which groups of Americans most readily earned others’ sympathy and respect. — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, "How Black Suffragettes Subverted the Domestic Sphere," 18 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'ballot box.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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