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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overvote .
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Examples
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She was sitting behind the Eagle voting machine and was yelling at voters in a thick Greek accent that "You do it WRONG!" whenever the machine would spit out an "overvoted" or "undervoted" message, which was quite often.
Archive 2006-11-01 sfmike 2006
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The mayor apparently had "overvoted" by punching too many bubbles on his ballot.
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She was sitting behind the Eagle voting machine and was yelling at voters in a thick Greek accent that "You do it WRONG!" whenever the machine would spit out an "overvoted" or "undervoted" message, which was quite often.
San Francisco Election Day sfmike 2006
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Or if voters "overvoted" and accidentally marked too many candidates, voters can also get a fresh ballot.
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Or if voters "overvoted" and accidentally marked too many candidates, voters can also get a fresh ballot.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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Or if voters "overvoted" and accidentally marked too many candidates, voters can also get a fresh ballot.
Hot Air ยป Top Picks 2008
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McCormick describes the Insight in-precinct scanner capabilities, "The new optical-scan machines will spit out ballots that are" overvoted, "meaning more than one candidate has been incorrectly marked.
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Also, many people in Florida and elsewhere โovervoted,โ meaning that they voted for two different candidates.
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The new machines are designed to alert voters that they overvoted and, then, give them a choice as to whether they want to redo their ballot.
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However it was funny to see how people actually filled out their ballots --- one person filled in every oval to make certain they overvoted or whatever .... others made mistakes ....
Whoops! Coleman Maneuver To Gain Votes Actually Costs Him A Few 2009
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