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(US politics) A case in which a voter has marked a ballot for more choices than allowed by the rules.
An overvote that took the form of punching Gore's chad and then writing his name (or Lieberman's) in the place for a write-in candidate would unambiguously manifest the voter's intention to vote for Gore.
Overvotes are a relatively common phenomenon for shares held in a street name.
[…] a poll worker can manually override the program and accept the ballot, even though it has been overvoted or undervoted.
I know a great deal of difficulty ensues, and frequently brokers' shares are overvoted.
Caleb and Joshua would have been overvoted by almost six hundred thousand Israelites; […]
Use overvote when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Overvote means (US politics) A case in which a voter has marked a ballot for more choices than allowed by the rules.
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
An overvote that took the form of punching Gore's chad and then writing his name (or Lieberman's) in the place for a write-in candidate would unambiguously manifest the voter's intention to vote for Gore.
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