Exhausted ballot: Difference between revisions
(Proposing merge with "Exhausted choices", per my comment at Talk:Exhausted ballot#Exhausted ballots vs exhausted choices. Now that I've been reading up a bit more, I suspect the problem is the conflation of overvotes, undervotes, and exhausted ballots, which I think are three different categories (and one is not a subset of the others).) |
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An exhausted ballot occurs when a voter overvotes, undervotes, or voter ranks only candidates that are eliminated from race ([[Exhausted choices]] ). |
An exhausted ballot occurs when a voter overvotes, undervotes, or voter ranks only candidates that are eliminated from race ([[Exhausted choices]] ). |
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Because these votes are not tabulated in the final round, that ballot does not influence the election after it becomes exhausted. |
Because these votes are not tabulated in the final round, that ballot does not influence the election after it becomes exhausted. |
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=Exhausted ballot types= |
=Exhausted ballot types= |
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RCV (IRV) Ballot maybe be flagged as 'exhausted' for several different reasons. |
RCV (IRV) Ballot maybe be flagged as 'exhausted' for several different reasons. |
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==Overvote== |
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An overvote occurs when a voter marks two candidates in a single column/rank. For example, if a voter marked both Janie Smith and Aaron Jones as his first choice, his ballot would not count in the election. Likewise, if a voter correctly ranked his first choice but marked two candidates in the following column, only the first choice would be tabulated. |
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==Undervote== |
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An undervote occurs when a voter skips two or more columns or rankings. For example, if a voter picked Janie Smith as his first choice, skipped his second and third choice and selected another candidate as his fourth choice, his ballot would not count in the election after the first round. |
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==Exhausted Choices== |
==Exhausted Choices== |
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An exhausted choice occurs when a voter ranks only candidates that are eliminated from contention. |
An exhausted choice occurs when a voter ranks only candidates that are eliminated from contention. |
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Revision as of 05:24, 2 March 2023
 | It has been suggested that this article be merged with Exhausted choices. (Discuss) Proposed since March 2023. |
An exhausted ballot occurs when a voter overvotes, undervotes, or voter ranks only candidates that are eliminated from race (Exhausted choices ).
Because these votes are not tabulated in the final round, that ballot does not influence the election after it becomes exhausted.
Exhausted ballot types
RCV (IRV) Ballot maybe be flagged as 'exhausted' for several different reasons.
Exhausted Choices
An exhausted choice occurs when a voter ranks only candidates that are eliminated from contention. See details at Exhausted choices
Ballot Exhaustion
Refers to processing a ranked choice voting contest on a cast ballot, when that ballot becomes inactive and cannot be advanced in the tabulation for a contest because there are no further valid rankings on the ballot for continuing contest options.
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