From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishballot boxˈballot box noun 1 [countable]PPVVOTE/ELECT a box that ballot papers are put in after voting2 → the ballot box
Examples from the Corpus
ballot box• Another ballot box was available at the central library.• No society which believes in democratic values can allow the ballot box to be overridden by the bomb and the bullet.• H.. Doing traffic engineering at the ballot box is fools' work.• Haider and his followers have been gradually building their support at the ballot box for the past decade.• Like everyone else, they will be able to pass judgment by means of the ballot box.• They equally fear losing power through the ballot box. 