Overvote
Overvote: When the number of selections made by a voter in a contest is more than the maximum number allowed.
Also known as: Overvotes
Definition
When the number of selections made by a voter in a contest is more than the maximum number allowed.
Alternative Definitions
- Definition 2
(1) Generally prohibited practice of voting for more than the allotted number of candidates for the office being contested. (2) The voting for more than the allotted number of selections in a race. (3) Occurs when the number of alternatives selected by a voter in a contest exceeds the maximum number allowed for that contest. Also known as overvoting.
- Definition 3
Occurs when the number of selections made by a voter in a contest is more than the maximum number allowed.
- Definition 4
An overvote occurs when a voter makes more selections than she is entitled to make. For example, voting for two candidates for a particular contest when the voter is entitled to vote for only one candidate in that contest is an overvote.
- Definition 5
A “condition of a voted ballot in which more votes have been cast for an ISSUE or OFFICE than the number of votes that the voter is la wfully entitled to cast.” Minn. Rules §8220.0250.21. Generally no vote at all in counted for any office that is overvoted, but there are exception. In a vote-for-many office, for example, in Iowa, if a voter writes in the same name more than once in the write-in spaces, exactly one of the votes will count despite the overvote. Iowa Code §49.99. Cf. UNDERVOTE.