overvote
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English
Etymology
Noun
overvote (plural overvotes)
- (US politics) A case in which a voter has marked a ballot for more choices than allowed by the rules
- 2001, Richard A. Posner, Breaking the Deadlock, →ISBN, page 78:
- 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.
- (business) A case in which more votes are cast in a voter's name than allowed under the rules
- 1978, Martin Lipton et al., Takeovers and Freezeouts, →ISBN, page 17:
- Overvotes are a relatively common phenomenon for shares held in a street name.
Verb
overvote (third-person singular simple present overvotes, present participle overvoting, simple past and past participle overvoted)
- (US politics) To spoil a ballot by marking it for more choices than allowed by the rules
- 2005, United States Government Accountability Office, Elections, →ISBN, page 10:
- […] a poll worker can manually override the program and accept the ballot, even though it has been overvoted or undervoted.
- (business) To cast more votes than allowed under the rules
- (obsolete) To outvote or overrule
