Ballot /(băl"lŭt)/

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.

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.

imp. & p. p. Balloted; p. pr. & vb. n. Balloting

1. To vote or decide by ballot; as, to ballot for a candidate.

1. To vote for or in opposition to.

   None of the competitors arriving to a sufficient number of balls, they fell to ballot some others.