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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]
Spoiled votes may or may not be protest votes, but are often kept aside for challenges, further examination, or disposal. 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]
In United States politics, a sore loser law is a law prohibiting the loser in a primary election from then running as an independent or representing another political party in the general election, thus basically blocking them from appearing on the general election ballot (though sometimes they may still run as a write-in candidate).
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 ...
Last month, the Montana Supreme Court ruled that several laws to restrict voting — including a law that eliminated student IDs — violated that state’s constitution. The lawsuit was brought ...
The coverage formula, contained in Section 4(b) of the Act, determines which states are subject to preclearance. As enacted in 1965, the first element in the formula was whether, on November 1, 1964, the state or a political subdivision of the state maintained a "test or device" restricting the opportunity to register and vote.
A 2006 law established that ranked-choice voting would be used when judicial vacancies were created between a primary election and sixty days before a general election. The law also established a pilot program for RCV for up to 10 cities in 2007 and up to 10 counties for 2008; to be monitored and reported to the 2007–2008 General Assembly. [200]