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BLACKBALL

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 19 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BER-BLA
BLACKBALL , a token used for voting by ballot against the
election
  of a candidate for membership of a
club
  or other association. Formerly
white
  and
black
  balls about the size of pigeons' eggs were used respectively to represent votes for and against a candidate for such
election
 ; and although this method is now generally obsolete, the
term
  " blackball " survives both as noun and verb. The rules of most clubs provide that a stated proportion of " blackballs " shall exclude candidates proposed for election, and the candidates so excluded are said to have been " blackballed "; but the ballot (q.v.) is now usually conducted by a method in which the favourable and adverse votes are not distinguished by different coloured balls at all. Either voting papers are employed, or ballsof which the colour has no significanceare cast into different compartments of a ballot-box according as they are favourable or adverse to the candidate.


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