Exhausted ballot

Exhausted Ballot

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.

Ballot Exhaustion

same as above?

See also:

• Exhausted_choices
• Spoiled_ballot

Links:

• https://www.eac.gov/sites/default/files/glossary_files/Glossary_of_Election_Terms_EAC.pdf