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:''Not to be confused with [[exhaustive ballot]]''.
An '''exhausted ballot''' is a ballot with rankings that are not considered in rounds of an election using some variation of IRV / RCV (single winner) and [[Single Transferable Vote|Single Transferable Vote (STV)]] due to elimination in prior rounds. The ballot rankings get eliminated because ''all'' candidates who appear in the particular ballot/ranking were eliminated from the election's prior rounds of tallying. The practice of eliminating ballots from consideration is sometimes referred to as '''ballot exhaustion'''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ballot exhaustion |url=https://ballotpedia.org/Ballot_exhaustion |access-date=2023-02-27 |website=Ballotpedia |language=en}}</ref> Single-winner STV is frequently referred to in the United States as "[[ranked-choice voting]]".
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"Ballot exhaustion" occurs when rankings on a voter’s ballot prevent their vote from being counted and determining the election’s end result. The selection in this particular race is then discarded, and does not influence the final outcome.
'''RCV False Claim''': If your first choice is eliminated your next choice will be counted - this term is used to describe a specific kind of wasted vote in RCV.
Definition: Ballots where down ballot rankings that could have made a difference were not counted because
# the election was called before the votes transferred
# the next choice was eliminated before the vote transferred (failed transfer ballots / exhausted choices)
=== Exhausted ballot and exhausted ranking ===
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=== Undervoting and truncated ballots ===
[[File:Exhausted-and-truncated-ballots-Venn.svg|thumb|right|Some truncated ballot have sufficient rankings for a vote to be counted, and some exhausted ballots are exhausted balots are not technically "truncated", since the voter may have completed all of the rankings that they were allowed.]]
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=== Spoiled ballots and spoiled choices ===
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==== Other terminology ====
* exhausted choices
* inactive choices
* disqualified ballots
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* spent ballots
* [[wasted votes]]
== Example ==
{{main|2009 Burlington mayoral election}}
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