undervote
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- noun
- /ˈʌndərˌvoʊt/
- Specialized
:
voto subestimado
- If the US Supreme Court had not intervened, it would have been a recount of the undervote.
- undervote ballots
- recount of undervotes
- number of undervotes
Examples
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The article to which you linked is an analysis of the undervote only.
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The undervote for Obama was perfectly and entirely legitimate; it was not the result of stolen or lost votes.
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The Florida Supreme Court ordered a recount, statewide, of the undervote.
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But the Florida Supreme Court mandated a manual count of both undervotes and overvotes.
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The study is the first comprehensive review of the 61,195 "undervote" ballots that were at the center of Florida's disputed presidential election.
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There was a statewide recount of the undervotes as requested by Gore.
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Even in 2010, when we won all of the countywide and statewide races on the Harris County ballot except for Governor, the margins of victory at the bottom of the ballot (where the judicial races are listed) were close because of the undervote in those races.
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Many ballots had leftover selections, resulting in a significant number of undervotes during the election.
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In the recent election, officials reported thousands of undervotes as voters chose not to select candidates in some races.
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The final tally showed that there were over 10,000 undervotes, indicating a lack of clarity on the ballot.
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Etymology
The word undervote is formed from under (meaning 'below' or 'too few') and vote ('to choose in an election'). An undervote is therefore when there are fewer votes cast in a contest than allowed, such as leaving that part of the ballot blank, which is why the word means a 'too small' number of votes.