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undervote

noun

Etymology

From under- + vote.

  1. derived from *h₁wegʷʰ-✻ — “to promise, to vow”
  2. derived from vōtum
  3. prefixed as undervote — “under + vote”

Definitions

  1. A vote that has been cast but that shows no legally valid preference for a candidate in…

    A vote that has been cast but that shows no legally valid preference for a candidate in an election.

  2. The number of such votes in an election.

  3. To spoil a ballot by marking it for fewer choices than mandated by the rules.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA