BALLOT

In the law of elections. A slip of paper bearing the names of the offices· to be filled at the particular election and the names of the "and i dates for whom the elector f deriires to vote; it may be printed, or written, or partly printed 'and partly written, and Is deposited by the voter in.· a "ballot-box" which is in the custody of the officers holding the election. Opinion of Justices, 19 R. I. 729, 36 Atl. 716, 36 L. R. A. 547; Bris- G bin v. Cleary, 26 Minn. 107, 1 N. W. 825;.State v. Timlilthy, 147 Mo. 532, 49 S. W. 500; Taylor v. Bleakley, 55 Kan. 1, 39 Pac. 1045, 28 L. R. A. 683, 49 Am. St. Rep. 233. Also the act of voting by balls or tickets. H A ballot is a ticket folded in such a man- 'ner that nothing written or printed thereon can be seen. Pol. Code Cal. § 1186. A ballot is defined to' be "a paper ticket con- _taining the names of the persons for whom the elector intends to vote and designating the of- I flee to which each person so named is intended by him to be chosen.'' Thus a ballot, or a ticket, is a single piece of paper containing tb,e names of the candidates and the offices for which they are running. If the elector were to write the names of the candidates upon his ticket twice or three or more times, he does not J thereby make it more than one ticket. People v. Holden, 28 Cal. 136. -Joint ballot, In parliamentary practice, a joint ballot is an election or vote by ballot participated in by the members of both houses of a legislative a embly sitting together as one body, the result being ·determlned by a majority K of the votes cast by the ~oint a embly thus constituted, instead of by concurrent majorities of the two houses. See State v. Shaw, 9 S. C. 144. [s. 121]