Today's Word "Undervote"
Published in Vocabulary
undervote \EHN-dehr-vot\ (noun) - A ballot missing one or more votes for specific offices that (usually) do not invalidate voting for other offices on the same ballot.
"In the election of 2000, the Gore campaign argued that many intended votes were not counted because of mechanical failure and were hence erroneously included in the undervote count."
The antonym of "undervote" is "overvote": voting for more than one candidate for the same office, either by marking the ballot for candidates of two different parties or by adding a write-in candidate and marking a listed candidate for the same office. The same words may be used as verbs: "to undervote" and "to overvote." A derivation based on "under" (less than maximum) + "vote" (cast a ballot in an election and/or referendum).
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