Ballot

1. n. The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district.
2. n. Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting.
3. n. The act of voting by balls or written or printed ballots or tickets; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.