As we approach a federal election, for the next few weeks I’ll look at some ‘election lingo’.
ballot: Why do we call elections ‘ballots’? Well, this comes from the French ballotte and means ‘balls’ (you can see ‘ball’ surviving in our English word). The reason is that the oldest form of secret voting (secret ballot) was done with balls.
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