<P> At the close of the election all boxes can be taken to a single location for tallying (The count) and the result declared . Alternately the boxes can be tallied at the polling station, with individual stations announcing their results to be tallied (known as precinct count). </P> <P> Ballot boxes are obsolete in some jurisdictions because of the increase in paperless electronic voting . </P> <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>

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