Ballot that is invalid and is thus not included in the final vote count.
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Examples for "spoilt vote"
Examples for "spoilt vote"
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Any other form of marking will lead to a spoilt vote.
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The IEC has prepared for this, and explained to us what constitutes a spoilt vote.
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Any attempt to circle or "fill in" a box is a spoilt vote.
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It's not just a handful of voters, either: Thousands of people register a " spoilt vote" in every national election, with varying degrees of purpose.
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Paddy Smyth reports on how a bizarre spoiled vote saw the final decision made by drawing lot.
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The final vote was 52 in favour and 15 against the deal with one spoiled vote.
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The result was the low turnout and the high level of spoiled votes.
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Returning officers throughout the State reported what they believed were unprecedented numbers of spoiled votes.
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Some 820 students voted against the levy, and there were 44 spoiled votes.
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The number of spoilt ballot papers in the whole country probably is less than 1 per cent.
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To now suggest a spoilt ballot in the general election as a 'tough love' protest against ANC corruption and ineptitude is pointless.
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Hurley added that returning officers at the Gloucestershire count had reported unprecedented numbers of spoilt ballot papers, many scrawled with abusive slogans.
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The difficulty with a spoilt ballot is that the IEC's mandate is simply to register whether a ballot paper is valid or not valid.
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All 313 Conservative MPs voted - with one spoiled ballot recorded.
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They would be free to protest with spoiled ballot papers.
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Every spoiled ballot or abstention is a vote that could have been given to the opposition.
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That means - like any other kind of spoiled ballot - the vote will be ruled "informal".
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The conduct of the campaign contributed to the unusually high number of 109,066 spoiled ballot papers.
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He maintains that if invalid votes were disallowed he would now be the constituency MP.
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Invalid votes totalled 106 and the total valid poll was 39,496.
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Following extensive discussions over doubtful ballots, it emerged five invalid votes had been included in the first full count.
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The rest cast invalid votes.
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At the Uefa vote, there were 28 in favour and 24 against, plus two invalid votes.
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There were 111 invalid ballots.
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The total valid poll was 1,686,511, with 40,545 invalid ballots.
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Close to 30 percent of all voters in that election cast blank or invalid ballots, a situation which generated doubts about the vote's political legitimacy.