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ballot box

sealed container for completed ballots, which prevents access to the ballots cast until the close of the voting period
Class type of: box Q577947
ballot box
National Museum of American History · Public Domain · Wikimedia

Facts

4 properties
Subclass of
box[1]
Has use
secret ballot[2]
Contains
ballot[4]
Unicode character
🗳️[3]
🏷️ Also known as
en ballot box ar صندوق أوراق الاقتراع ar صندوق أوراق الإقتراع ar 🗳 cs volební urna da stemmeurne de Wahltonne de Wahlurne el ψηφοδόχος el κάλπη es caja es urna es urna electoral fi ääniuurna fi uurna fi vaaliuurna fr urne électorale fr boîte de scrutin he קלפי hu szavazóurna
🔖 Identifiers · 18
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85011337
GND ID
1367515440
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300194529
BBC Things ID
2be4495f-7b29-4533-b88a-db176d84969c
BNCF Thesaurus ID
67835
BabelNet ID
00008199n
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
12274546w
Freebase ID
/m/039gfl
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
ballot-boxes
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007282432005171
Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging
13061
Postimees topic ID
106122
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TOPCMB ID
urna eleitoral
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials ID
tgm000744
Topic's main category
Category:Ballot boxes
UK Parliament thesaurus ID
8515
Vikidia article ID
fr:Urne_(vote)
Yale LUX ID
concept/e25e2885-c410-4133-b8ab-6e0d380c96d4

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🔗 Connections
Contains 1
ballot
Has use 1
secret ballot
Subclass of 1
box
← FactGrid item ID 1
Koszówka
← Has part(s) of the class 1
polling place
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  1. 8w ago · Jutta Lindenthal · 2026-09-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    GND ID → 1367515440
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ GND ID: 1367515440"
  2. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
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    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → box
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007282432005171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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