Overvote

Theoretically if we had a totally fair count, for example, if right now we weren't just counting the undervote, but also the overvote, that is all the votes, and applying the same standard to dimpled chad in the one instance as in the other, you bet. ❋ Unknown (2000)

Where the machine finds more than one arrow to have been substantially completed, it will attempt to accord the vote to the arrow that is most substantially completed; if no such arrow is more substantially completed than any other, no vote at all shall be recorded, and the ballot shall be deemed an "overvote" as to that office. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

One ballot was an overvote, meaning more than one candidate was selected. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"overvote" ballots where the voter had mistakenly marked the ballot for both Rossi and Gregoire. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The county auditor/treasurer has ruled that this is an invalid overvote. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Gale Brewer, chairwoman of the City Council committee on governmental operations, and 31 other council members sent a letter to the state Board of Elections calling the machines handling of the overvote "substandard and misleading." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Any overvote that is submitted will be thrown out as invalid. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ms. Weiser said she's noticed very little education efforts about the new machines, and she added, "I am very skeptical any education program can adequately address the overvote problem, which is one of the things that can happen with the machines." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Did someone add the mark for Barkley, to create a machine overvote? ❋ Unknown (2009)

So by the basic rules as stated, filling in another oval and writing in a name is an overvote. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And I wonder how many of the "properly rejected" ballots were submitted by legit registered voters who simply didn't follow complicated directions exactly but did not overvote or vote on the wrong ballot etc. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The same reasoning would call this a vote for the bubbled Coleman and not an overvote due to lack of bubble on the second name; but Franken was right to have called it out for scrutiny. ❋ Unknown (2009)

During counting, the optical scan machine interpreted the marks as an overvote, and discarded the voter's choice in that contest. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Cuyahoga still had Kucinich on the Presidential slate, but the optical scanners were set to count a vote for him and an overvote. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Very few voters would bother to be exit polled if they had not voted for any candidate for President, so that under and overvote voters are underpolled. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A stray mark can be read as an overvote by the machines, ignored by the machines, or read as a vote while the real vote is ignored. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Even the best machines "might read stray marks as an overvote" -- two votes for one office -- or not read bubbles filled in with the wrong ink. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This ballot design will increase the likelihood of voters only voting from the list of candidates in the left column, or more likely voters may circle one candidate from both columns and invalidate their vote for that race as an overvote. ❋ Unknown (2008)

An overvote is when someone punches in the name of the candidate, and then, just to make sure, writes their name on the ballot. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The voter is given the chance to reject and retrieve the ballot (such as in the case of an overvote) or to accept the ballot as voted. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Hey! Even if you WANT to [elect] both [Clinton] and Obama as 2008 Democratic nominees for co-president, the [voting machine] won't let you; it's an overvote. ❋ Grinning Cat (2008)