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In voting, a ballot is considered spoilt, spoiled, void, null, informal, invalid or stray if a law declares or an election authority determines that it is invalid and thus not included in the vote count. This may occur accidentally or deliberately. The total number of spoilt votes in a United States election has been called the residual vote. [1]
Compared to plurality without primaries, the elimination of weak candidates in earlier rounds reduces their effect on the final results; however, spoiled elections remain common compared to other systems. [29] [31] [32] As a result, instant-runoff voting still tends towards two-party rule through the process known as Duverger's law.
A protest vote (also called a blank, null, spoiled, or "none of the above" vote) [1] is a vote cast in an election to demonstrate dissatisfaction with the choice of candidates or the current political system. [2] Protest voting takes a variety of forms and reflects numerous voter motivations, including political apathy. [3]
Yes, that’s allowed too — but there are rules. First, only you can be in the photo with your ballot. ... If you have a family emergency, you can ask for your ballot to be spoiled, leave and ...
Ohio is one of 12 states that passed laws stiffening their in-person voter identification laws in the wake of the 2020 election and Trump's false claims of mass voter fraud, according to an ...
An election worker prepares absentee ballots for the upcoming general election before they are mailed to voters, at Wake County Board of Elections headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Sept ...
A repeat election led to St. Petersburg and Sverdlovsk electing proper Members of Parliament. Ulyanovsk's second vote however, after two candidates dropped out of the race, actually saw "Against All" gain more support in the polls, now pulling in 21.5% of the vote, nearly double what any of the actual candidates received.
[n 1] This means empirical observations of the frequency of spoiled elections may not be a good measure, because they exclude relevant information from candidates who chose not to run. Vote splitting occurs when candidates or ballot questions [n 2] have similar ideologies. A spoiler candidate can draw votes from a major candidate with similar ...