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(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).)
(Moved the #Overvote and #Undervote sections to the Spoiled ballot page)
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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]] ).
[[File:Overvoting RCV IRV.png|thumb]]
 
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=
RCV (IRV) Ballot maybe be flagged as 'exhausted' for several different reasons.
 
==Overvote==
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.
==Undervote==
[[File:Undervoting RCV IRV Ballot Exhausted Ballot.png|thumb]]
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.
==Exhausted Choices==
An exhausted choice occurs when a voter ranks only candidates that are eliminated from contention.
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