There are more than 50 countries that export coffee. They are near the equator, where the climate is conducive to producing coffee beans.
BALLOTED
Verb
balloted
simple past tense and past participle of ballot
Source: Wiktionary
BALLOT
Bal"lot, n. Etym: [F. ballotte, fr. It. ballotta. See Ball round body.]
1. Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting.
2. The act of voting by balls or written or printed ballots or tickets; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets. The insufficiency of the ballot. Dickens.
3. The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district. Ballot box, a box for receiving ballots.
Bal"lot, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Balloted; p. pr. & vb. n. Balloting.] Etym: [F. ballotter to toss, to ballot, or It. ballottare. See Ballot, n.]
Definition: To vote or decide by ballot; as, to ballot for a candidate.
Bal"lot, v. t.
Definition: To vote for or in opposition to. None of the competitors arriving to a sufficient number of balls, they fell to ballot some others. Sir H. Wotton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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