Ballot that is invalid and is thus not included in the final vote count.
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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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Millions of spoiled ballots would cast doubt on the credibility of the poll results.
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But the large number of spoiled ballots in that election suggested that Woodstock had actually won.
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The rest were blank or spoiled ballots.
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There were 327 spoiled ballots, giving a total valid poll of 42,472.
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The turnout figure includes spoiled ballots.
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Gambian officials say the system is designed to avoid spoiled ballots and to simplify the process for illiterate voters.
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Those figures excluded 16.4 percent of blank or spoiled ballots.
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There were 34 spoiled ballots.
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By comparison, spoiled ballots in the last election, in 2013, comprised just 1.6 percent of the total.
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With 54.6 percent, or 25.6 million votes, counted, total spoiled ballots from both constituency and party lists totaled 2.43 million.
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"They never announced how many votes Woodstock got, and they treated those votes as spoiled ballots," Stallman recalls.