drop box
a box for holding shuttles on a loom, as a box loom, used on either side of the race plate in weaving cloth having a variety of colors in the filling.
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The proposals in Georgia include bans on automatic voter registration, ballot drop boxes and no-excuse absentee voting.
Politics Podcast: What Georgia Republicans’ Proposed Voting Restrictions Would Do | Galen Druke | February 8, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightThe institute gave secretaries of state from both parties technical advice on everything from which vendors to use to how to locate drop boxes.
The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election | Molly Ball | February 4, 2021 | TimeThe task force recommends those methods — mail-in voting, early voting, drop boxes, even curbside voting — should be made more permanent.
Instead, you should now drop it off at an election drop box or vote in person in order to guarantee your vote is counted.
Officials in the District, too, said voters who haven’t yet mailed their ballots should instead bring them to a drop box or voting center.
Maryland, D.C., Fairfax officials urge voters to avoid mailing ballots, use drop boxes instead | Erin Cox, Michael Brice-Saddler, Antonio Olivo | October 29, 2020 | Washington Post
In 1760 Robert Kay invented the drop box, by which different shuttles carrying different colors of thread were employed.
The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century. | Edward W. ByrnThe front end of the feed rod is supported in a drop box q, and is splined to allow the worm k to travel upon it.
Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II | Joshua RoseIt is true that both the fly-shuttle and drop-box had been invented by that time, but the loom was still worked by human power.
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