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- noun Plural form of
undervote .
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At issue: more than 18,380 nonvotes -- called "undervotes" -- in Sarasota County, where numerous voters and a few poll workers complained the touch-screen voting machines failed to register votes.
November 2006 2006
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There's already talk about what to do about the 15,000 or so so-called "undervotes" - ballots where there was a vote recorded by the optical scanners for President but not for the Senate race.
Vodkapundit 2008
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My best understanding is that the undervotes are a result of the ballot design.
Sound Politics: Rush Holt should have spoken up two years ago 2006
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SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, the counting of those 9,000 so-called undervotes from Miami-Dade County began a couple of hours ago and is proceeding as we speak.
CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: Hillsborough County Begins Manual Recount - December 9, 2000 2000
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Back there behind these people who are standing in the way here, the Fort Lauderdale and Broward county elections officials are about to start holding up approximately 6,000 so-called undervotes, in which there was no vote recorded for president.
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BOIES: No. That is a result of adding the so-called undervotes that were mentioned and the so-called overvotes that were mentioned.
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We're talking -- pardon me, about 9,000 so-called undervotes from Miami-Dade County, which you recall, will trucked up the Florida Turnpike on a Ryder truck this past week.
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Canvassing boards across the state of Florida have about 27 hours now to complete a hand count of so-called undervotes following yesterday's bombshell decision from the Florida State Supreme Court to review at least 43,000 ballots that could not be counted by machine.
CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: Hillsborough County Begins Manual Recount - December 9, 2000 2000
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O'CONNOR: Yes, he is, and you know, he's going to his ranch this afternoon, but another important point, Natalie, that the Bush campaign is wanting to point out on the so-called undervotes and they've been actually sending out e-mails on the subject just as the Gore campaign, you know, sends out e-mails on the facts they want presented.
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A 4-3 decision yesterday by the Florida Supreme Court requires counties to manually inspect all the so-called undervotes, which are ballots that voting machines did not count.
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