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BLACKBALL , a token used for voting by See also:ballot against the See also:election of a See also:candidate for membership of a See also:club or other association. Formerly See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white and See also:black balls about the See also: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 See also: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 balls—of which the See also:colour has no significance—are See also:cast into different compartments of a ballot-See also:box according as they are favourable or adverse to the candidate.
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