rejected ballot
Voided election paper
A rejected ballot is a vote that election officials discard because it fails to meet validity requirements.
Ballots may be rejected for missing signatures, mismatched signatures, arriving after deadlines, or improper marking that makes voter intent unclear.
The term appears frequently in discussions of mail-in voting and election disputes: Thousands of rejected ballots could have changed the outcome.
- spoiledRuined or overindulged
- invalidWithout legal force
- voidWithout legal effect
- disqualifiedDeclared unfit to compete
- uncountedNot included in totals
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- ballots
- election problemsmiscount, overvote, undervote, voter fraud, double voting