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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 social choice theory and politics, a spoiler effect happens when a losing candidate affects the results of an election simply by participating. [1] [2] Voting rules that are not affected by spoilers are said to be spoilerproof.
A refused ballot, or similar alternative, is a choice available to voters in many elections. This is an alternative for many people to casting a disparaging spoiled ballot, which is not counted separately from ballots which have been accidentally spoiled.
In the United States, cancelled physical ballots may be called "spoiled ballots", [3] as distinct from an "invalid vote" which has been cast. In Canada, a spoiled ballot is one that has been handled by an elector in such a manner that it is ruined beyond use, or that the deputy returning officer finds soiled or improperly printed. The spoilt ...
[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 ...
The Philadelphia Eagles have spoiled the Kansas City Chiefs' bid for a three-peat, winning the Super Bowl 40-22. ___ Will Travis Kelce retire? The Chiefs wasted no time turning their attention to ...
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The bad apples metaphor originated as a warning of the corrupting influence of one corrupt or sinful person on a group: that "one bad apple can spoil the barrel". Over time the concept has been used to describe the opposite situation, where "a few bad apples" should not be seen as representative of the rest of their group.