overvote

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A case in which a voter has marked a ballot for more choices than allowed by the rules US
    — An overvote that took the form of punching Gore's chad and then writing his name (or Lieberman's) in the place for a write-in candidate would unambiguously manifest the voter's intention to vote for Gore.
  2. A case in which more votes are cast in a voter's name than allowed under the rules
    — Overvotes are a relatively common phenomenon for shares held in a street name.
动词 v.
  1. To spoil a ballot by marking it for more choices than allowed by the rules US
    — […] a poll worker can manually override the program and accept the ballot, even though it has been overvoted or undervoted.
  2. To cast more votes than allowed under the rules
    — I know a great deal of difficulty ensues, and frequently brokers' shares are overvoted.
  3. To outvote or overrule obsolete
    — Caleb and Joshua would have been overvoted by almost six hundred thousand Israelites; […]

词形变化

overvotes plural overvotes present,singular,third-person overvoting participle,present overvoted participle,past overvoted past

词汇关系

衍生词
overvoter
相关词
outvote undervote subvote supervote

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
English vote
English overvote
From over- + vote.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
English vote
English overvote
From over- + vote.
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