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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.
In cases where a voter has ranked only candidates that did not make it to the final round of counting, the voter's ballot is said to have been exhausted.▼
▲In cases where a voter has ranked only candidates that did not make it to the final round of counting, the voter's ballot is said to have been exhausted.
▲ballot exhaustion occurs when all the candidates a voter ranked have lost even though two or more other candidates remain in the race.
This might happen because a voter chose not to rank all or many candidates or because a voter ranked as many candidates as allowed on the ballot paper.
Since such a vote contains no rankings of a candidate still in the race, it is allowed to exhaust and is no longer included in the tally for winner.
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