<P> The word ballot derives from voting systems based upon the use of a small ball instead of a voting paper: see blackball . </P> <P> The first British secret ballot using ballot papers and a ballot box was held in Pontefract on 15 August 1872, under the terms of the recently enacted Ballot Act 1872 . In a ministerial by - election following his appointment as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Hugh Childers was re-elected as MP for Pontefract . The original ballot box, sealed in wax with a liquorice stamp, is held at Pontefract Museum . </P> <Ul> <Li> <P> A cardboard ballot box used during the first federal vote in Washington, D.C. . </P> </Li> <Li> <P> A wooden ballot box used in the northeastern United States c. 1870 . </P> </Li> <Li> <P> A galvanized metal ballot box used in Tulare County, California United States c. 1936 . </P> </Li> <Li> <P> A voter putting her envelope into a clear ballot box during the 2007 French presidential election . </P> </Li> <Li> <P> A glass globe ballot jar c. 1884 . </P> </Li> <Li> <P> An Acme voting machine of Bridgewater, Connecticut c. 1880 . </P> </Li> <Li> <P> A translucent ballot box (Tiobox) used in Slovenia . </P> </Li> <Li> <P> An old metal ballot box used in Norway . </P> </Li> <Li> <P> A ballot box at the start of the controversial 2014 Crimean referendum . </P> </Li> <Li> <P> Clear sided ballot boxes used in the Haitian general election in 2006 </P> </Li> <Li> <P> A man in Sarakhs put his vote to ballot, Iranian presidential election, 2013 </P> </Li> <Li> <P> Secured ballot boxes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo </P> </Li> <Li> <P> Ballot boxes used in the Philippines before automation was implemented in 2010 . </P> </Li> <Li> <P> A recycling bin as ballot box for the German federal election, 2017; Central Electoral Office of the City of Bochum </P> </Li> </Ul> <Li> <P> A cardboard ballot box used during the first federal vote in Washington, D.C. . </P> </Li>

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