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In voting, a ballot is considered spoilt, spoiled, void, null, informal, or stray if a law declares or an election authority determines that it is invalid and thus not included in the vote count. This may occur accidentally or deliberately. The total number of spoilt votes in a United States election has been called the residual vote. In Australia, such votes are generally referred to as informal votes, and in Canada they are referred to as rejected votes.
In most jurisdictions, spoilt votes are counted and reported.
A ballot may be spoiled in a number of ways, including:
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