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1620 Court Bk. 22 Feb. in S. M. Kingsbury Rec. Virginia Company (1906) 315 The Ballatinge Box standinge vppon the Table.

1622 in J. B. Heath Some Acct. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1869) 100 To trie the sayde election by the ballotynge box.

1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso 8 The Supreme Magistracy of the State-Inquisitors [of Venice], could with three Balletting Balls, easily bury alive any Cesar or Pompey, which began to discover himself in that well-governed State.

1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 34 Each Freeholder drops into the Baletting Box one Bowle..And for chusing of Parliamentmen and all publick Votes in Corporations, it were happy it were so.

1700 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) IV. 628 Each member put into the balloting glasse [a] list of 13 commissioners.

1800 Ann. Reg. 1797 (Otridge ed.) Chron. 2/1 The balloting books..they carried off in triumph.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 403/1 A balloting-paper.

1877 Times 13 June 9/4 The issue is to be sought in balloting urns, and not across barricades.

1936 Dunkirk (N.Y.) Evening Observer 28 Apr. 5/5 The total of votes being rolled up for those who are today near the top of the balloting list.

1938 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 58 110/2 A funnel-like top, into which the balloting balls were poured unseen from a jug.

2001 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 29 Dec. (Neighbor section) 1 By the time the April local elections rolled around, the county had installed higher-tech optical-scanning balloting boxes at half of all precincts.