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English
Noun
ballot box (plural ballot boxes)
- A sealed box with a slit, into which a voter puts a completed voting slip.
- The process or method of voting.
The people will decide at the ballot box.
2024 April 3, Howard Johnston, “TfL is overflowing with ideas... but is short of the capital”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 30:Incumbent Sadiq Khan wants a third term. But he is currently silenced by the strict rules of 'purdah', so he cannot use funds from the Greater London Authority for anything that might give him political advantage. There are strict neutrality rules to ensure that all ten candidates stand an equal chance at the ballot box […] .
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a sealed box into which a voter puts a voting slip
- Armenian: քվեատուփ (hy) (kʻveatupʻ)
- Asturian: urna (ast)
- Bulgarian: избира́телна у́рна f (izbirátelna úrna)
- Catalan: urna (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 票箱 (zh) (piàoxiāng), 票匭 / 票匦 (zh) (piàoguǐ), 投票箱 (zh) (tóupiàoxiāng)
- Czech: volební urna f
- Danish: stemmeurne c, valgurne c, stemmeboks c
- Dutch: stembus (nl) f
- Esperanto: balotkolektujo
- Finnish: vaaliuurna (fi), uurna (fi)
- French: urne (fr) f, urne électorale (fr) f
- Galician: urna f, urna electoral f
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Wahlurne (de) f
- Greek: κάλπη (el) f (kálpi), ψηφοδόχος (el) f (psifodóchos)
- Gujarati: મતપેટી (matpeṭī)
- Hebrew: קלפי (he) m (kalpae, kalpi)
- Hungarian: szavazóurna (hu), urna (hu)
- Icelandic: kjörkassi m
- Indonesian: kotak suara (id)
- Italian: urna elettorale f, bussolotto m, bussola (it) f
- Japanese: 投票箱 (ja) (とうひょうばこ, tōhyōbako)
- Khmer: ប្រអប់ទម្លាក់សន្លឹកឆ្នោត (brâʼâbtômléaksânlœ̆kchhnaôt)
- Kyrgyz: шайлоо урнасы (ky) f (şayloo urnası), шайлоо сандыгы (ky) m (şayloo sandıgı)
- Latin: sitella f, situla f, urna (la) f, cista f
- Norman: urne du scrutîn f (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: urne (no) m or f, valgurne (no) m or f
- Nynorsk: urne f, valurne f
- Portuguese: urna (pt) f
- Russian: избира́тельная у́рна (ru) f (izbirátelʹnaja úrna), баллотиро́вочный я́щик m (ballotiróvočnyj jáščik), у́рна (ru) f (úrna)
- Spanish: urna (es) f, urna electoral f
- Swedish: valurna (sv) c
- Tagalog: urna
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Tibetan: འོས་སྒམ ('os sgam), འོས་ཤོག་བླུག་སའི་སྒམ ('os shog blug sa'i sgam)
- Turkish: seçim sandığı (tr), sandık (tr)
- Yiddish: אורנע f (urne)
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the process or method of voting