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righteous1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 11:07 AM
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17.  Your terminology is wrong
Edited on Sun Dec-12-04 11:08 AM by righteous1
A spoiled ballot is a ballot that is "ruined" for any of a number of different reasons. A voter mistakenly votes for the wrong candidate, changes mind, or somehow screws up etc. The poll worker takes this "spoiled" Ballot and discards it, and issues a new fresh ballot to the voter. These spoiled ballots are garbage. The roughly 93,000 ballots are under/overvotes that the machine did not register for a specific candidate. A general concensus of experts seen to feel that as many as 10% of these 93000 could contain a discernable vote for president or ~ 9300 potential votes
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