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=Ballot exhaustion in RCV
A ballot becomes exhausted when a voter:
* Exhausted choices: a voter can list their preferences such that when applied to a runoff round it is for a candidate who is already eliminated - the vote is taken out of the election
* Overvotes - example: voter accidentally ranks two candidates as their first choice
* Undervotes - example: voter ranks only one candidate on their ballot and that candidate is eliminated from the contest before the final round
This article of focusing on the first category.
==Exhausted Choices==
Ballot exhaustion occurs when a ballot is no longer countable in a tally as all of the candidates marked on the ballot are no longer in the contest.
=similar terms= ▼
An exhausted choice occurs when a voter ranks only candidates that are eliminated from a race.
For clarity - it is better to ignore overvotes and undervotes in the first round of tabulation as “exhausted votes” because voters could make the same mistake on a ballot in an election decided by plurality.
In other words, votes that are exhausted in the second and subsequent rounds of tabulation are purely a consequence of using ranked-choice voting method tabulation algorithm.
▲=similar and confusing terms=
* spoiled ballots
* over-voted
* under-voted
* inactive choices
* disqualified ballots
* discarded ballots
* exhausted choices
* spent ballots
* wasted votes
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