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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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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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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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.
Uso de spoiled ballot en inglés
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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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Millions of spoiledballots would cast doubt on the credibility of the poll results.
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But the large number of spoiledballots in that election suggested that Woodstock had actually won.
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The rest were blank or spoiledballots.
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There were 327 spoiledballots, giving a total valid poll of 42,472.
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The turnout figure includes spoiledballots.
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Gambian officials say the system is designed to avoid spoiledballots and to simplify the process for illiterate voters.
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Those figures excluded 16.4 percent of blank or spoiledballots.
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There were 34 spoiledballots.
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By comparison, spoiledballots 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 spoiledballots 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 spoiledballots," Stallman recalls.