ballot

• n. 投票；投票用紙；投票総数
• vi. 投票する；くじで決める
• vt. 投票にかける；投票を呼びかける
• n.（投票用紙）人名；（英）投票用紙；（仏）投票用紙

ball, ball.ball, ball. -otは小単語の接尾辞。黒と白のボールで投票する古代の習慣から。

ballot

ballot: see ball

ballot (n.)

1540s, "small ball used in voting," also "secret vote taken by ballots," from Italian pallotte, diminutive of palla "ball," for small balls used as counters in secret voting (see balloon). Earliest references are to Venice. By 1776 extended to tickets or sheets of paper used in secret voting. Ballot box attested from 1670s; metonymically from 1834 as "system or practice of voting by ballot."

ballot (v.)

1540s, from ballot (n.). Related: Balloted; balloting.

1. The ballot was re-run on Mr Todd 's insistence after accusations of malpractice.

不正行為の罪に問われ、トッド氏の執念で投票が再開された。

2.I 'm going to write him in on my ballot next year.

来年は私の投票用紙に彼の名前を書きます。

3.Martinez expressed confidence of victory at the ballot box.

マルティネスは選挙に勝利する自信を示した。

4.The poll was widely discredited after allegations of ballot rigging.

選挙不正の疑いが浮上した後、今回の投票試験は広く疑問視されている。

5.They had already voted for him at the first ballot .

は、最初の投票で彼に投票しました。