Any other form of marking will lead to a spoiltvote.
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The IEC has prepared for this, and explained to us what constitutes a spoiltvote.
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Any attempt to circle or "fill in" a box is a spoiltvote.
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It's not just a handful of voters, either: Thousands of people register a " spoiltvote" in every national election, with varying degrees of purpose.
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The number of spoiltballot papers in the whole country probably is less than 1 per cent.
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To now suggest a spoiltballot 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 spoiltballot papers, many scrawled with abusive slogans.
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The difficulty with a spoiltballot 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 spoiledballot recorded.
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They would be free to protest with spoiledballot papers.
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Every spoiledballot or abstention is a vote that could have been given to the opposition.
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That means - like any other kind of spoiledballot - the vote will be ruled "informal".
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The conduct of the campaign contributed to the unusually high number of 109,066 spoiledballot papers.
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He maintains that if invalidvotes were disallowed he would now be the constituency MP.
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Invalidvotes totalled 106 and the total valid poll was 39,496.
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Following extensive discussions over doubtful ballots, it emerged five invalidvotes had been included in the first full count.
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The rest cast invalidvotes.
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At the Uefa vote, there were 28 in favour and 24 against, plus two invalidvotes.
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There were 111 invalidballots.
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The total valid poll was 1,686,511, with 40,545 invalidballots.
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Close to 30 percent of all voters in that election cast blank or invalidballots, a situation which generated doubts about the vote's political legitimacy.
Ús de spoiled vote en anglès
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Paddy Smyth reports on how a bizarre spoiledvote 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 spoiledvote.
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The result was the low turnout and the high level of spoiledvotes.
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Returning officers throughout the State reported what they believed were unprecedented numbers of spoiledvotes.
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Some 820 students voted against the levy, and there were 44 spoiledvotes.
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However, the tally of spoiledvotes was much higher than the 248 spoiledvotes cast in the presidential election.
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Most of the spoiledvotes cast in the abortion referendum were undecided voters, who were clear about their indecision.
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Nevertheless the number of spoiledvotes, at 33,228, indicates extensive dissatisfaction over the treaty's incomprehensibility.
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The chorus of 109,066 spoiledvotes is an eloquent expression of discontent with that system.
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The number of spoiledvotes was 7,224.
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Sir, -It never ceases to amaze me the number of spoiledvotes which are cast in each and every election and referendum.
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The electorate's dissatisfaction with the handling of the constitutional amendment was marked by a record number of spoiledvotes in the two Galway constituencies.
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In Galway West the 2,201 spoiledvotes amounted to more than 10 times the majority of 198 votes in favour of the amendment.
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The majority of spoiledvotes appeared to have shown some form of deviation from the standard expression of preference using the normal 1,2,3 marking.