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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]
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]
Undervotes combined with overvotes (known as residual votes) can be an academic indicator in evaluating the accuracy of a voting system when recording voter intent. [ 3 ] While an overvote in a plurality voting system or limited voting is always illegal, in certain other electoral methods including approval voting , this style of voting is ...
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 ...
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. [27] [29] [30] As a result, instant-runoff voting still tends towards two-party rule through the process known as Duverger's law.
Just weeks before the presidential election, new rules are going into effect in some states that can jeopardize people's right to vote, from challenges to voter registrations, to limits on when ...
The "butterfly ballot" used in Palm Beach County, Florida, was suspected of causing Al Gore's supporters to accidentally vote for Pat Buchanan. The 2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida was a period of vote recounting in Florida that occurred during the weeks after Election Day in the 2000 United States presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore.