0 present participle of ballot
1 to organize a secret vote by a group of people in order to find out their views:
Thus, the election really took place before the actual balloting.
Individual jurors were selected by the county sheriff, but there was no provision for balloting, nor any suggestion in law that this should be so.
This was compounded by the laborious method of balloting which, notwithstanding minor modifications over time, took several days rather than hours.
Finally, demilitarisation became an important issue in the 1963 electoral campaign, and contributed to the preemptive military coup a few days before the scheduled balloting.
The campaign was more important than the balloting for obtaining and legitimising political power.
Whether one viewed this as the proper outcome may depend in part on how one views the outcome of the balloting.
Finally, even for party leaders in major urban areas, existing balloting arrangements created serious problems of party management.
In fact, he did not even get 50 % of the votes cast needed to qualify him for a second round of balloting.
