Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of overvote.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word overvoted.

Examples

  • She was sitting behind the Eagle voting machine and was yelling at voters in a thick Greek accent that "You do it WRONG!" whenever the machine would spit out an "overvoted" or "undervoted" message, which was quite often.

    Archive 2006-11-01 sfmike 2006

  • The mayor apparently had "overvoted" by punching too many bubbles on his ballot.

    Final: Measure H Fails, Measure R Passes 2006

  • She was sitting behind the Eagle voting machine and was yelling at voters in a thick Greek accent that "You do it WRONG!" whenever the machine would spit out an "overvoted" or "undervoted" message, which was quite often.

    San Francisco Election Day sfmike 2006

  • Or if voters "overvoted" and accidentally marked too many candidates, voters can also get a fresh ballot.

    Top Stories - Google News 2008

  • Or if voters "overvoted" and accidentally marked too many candidates, voters can also get a fresh ballot.

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

  • Or if voters "overvoted" and accidentally marked too many candidates, voters can also get a fresh ballot.

    Hot Air ยป Top Picks 2008

  • McCormick describes the Insight in-precinct scanner capabilities, "The new optical-scan machines will spit out ballots that are" overvoted, "meaning more than one candidate has been incorrectly marked.

    Illinois Certification - a Recipe for Disaster? 2006

  • Also, many people in Florida and elsewhere โ€œovervoted,โ€ meaning that they voted for two different candidates.

    Eliminate the Secret Ballot | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009

  • The new machines are designed to alert voters that they overvoted and, then, give them a choice as to whether they want to redo their ballot.

    Fear New Machines Will Confuse Voters 2010

  • However it was funny to see how people actually filled out their ballots --- one person filled in every oval to make certain they overvoted or whatever .... others made mistakes ....

    Whoops! Coleman Maneuver To Gain Votes Actually Costs Him A Few 2009

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.