ballot box

noun

: a box for receiving ballots

: ballot sense 2a

Phrases

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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So who distinguished themselves at the ballot box in 2024, and who turned in an uninspired performance? —

Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2025 And America is hardly immune to the draw of the strongman (image at the least) at the ballot box. —

Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025 The ability for citizens to make laws at the ballot box has been around since Arizona earned statehood in 1912. —

Joanna Allhands, The Arizona Republic, 2 Jan. 2025 The move came amid a broader fight between the two parties around what voters should be required to have on hand at the ballot box. —

Caroline Vakil, The Hill, 31 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for ballot box