Ballot - Indian Laws - General

Word ballot As per Black s Law Dictionary (Fourth Edn.) at page 182 thus: Ballot means act of voting, usually in secret, by balls or by written or printed tickets or slips of paper; the system of voting by balls or tickets, or by any device for casting or recording votes, as by voting machine. In Stroud s Judicial dictionary (Third Edn.), however, ballot means votes recorded-all ballot papers put into the ballot boxes by the electors (p. 3239) . Stroud therefore, does not subscribe to the view of casting of vote through a voting machine and we agree with, this view because casting of votes by machine is a mechanical process, which has come into existence long after the Act was passed and is not generally invoked in most of the democratic countries of the world. Concise Oxford dictionary : ballot - (usu. secret) voting, small ball, ticket or paper used in voting; votes so recorded; lot-drawing. In Webster s Third New International Dictionary (Vol. I): ballot is to obtain a vote from (a body of voters) (the men on the proposal), to select by ballot or by the drawing of lots. A.C. JOSE VERSUS SIVAN PILLAI AND ORS. - 1984 (3) TMI 432 - SUPREME COURT