Definitions
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- noun A deliberate act of not
voting ; anabstention .
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Examples
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BECK: And my only concern, Your Honor, is this: I was told that in addition, these same county employees were actually going through undervotes, what the machine spit out as a nonvote, and doing their own little manual recount.
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Now by contrast, in Palm Beach County, the canvassing board in Palm Beach County only identified approximately 8 percent, that is 92 percent of the ballots, the undervote, or nonvote ballots that the Palm Beach County canvassing board looked at, only about 8 percent were identified as votes, and 92 percent remained nonvotes.
CNN Transcript - Special Event: Gore Legal Legal Team Holds News Briefing - November 30, 2000 2000
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And just as background, in the 20 percent of the precincts that were counted manually in Miami-Dade, the Miami-Dade Canvassing Board identified a legal vote in approximately one out of every four undervote or nonvote ballots that it reviewed.
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One of the 34 counties that I was addressing in Florida where there's a higher nonvote is in Duvall County, heavily military.
CNN Transcript - Special Event: Baker Announces New Legal Team for Bush Campaign - November 28, 2000 2000
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The Broward County Canvassing Board was able to identify a vote for president in essentially 1 out of every 4 of the ballots that the canvassing board looked at that had started out as an undervote or nonvote.
CNN Transcript - Special Event: Gore Legal Legal Team Holds News Briefing - November 30, 2000 2000
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But we should not have county employees, who are now doing a manual recount, and segregating what the machine said is a nonvote into two different categories.
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So was Friday's nonvote by the players a public relations gaffe, or prudent strategy?
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The voting will take place Sept. 29 to Nov. 3, under new NMB rules that don't count a nonvote as a "no", the union said.
Philadelphia Business News - Local Philadelphia News | The Philadelphia Business Journal 2010
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The vote to approve JSR-316 passed with 12 yes votes, one no vote, one nonvote, and two abstentions.
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(I'd love to see some random voter defend a nonvote off that fact ...)
The Hardball Times 2009
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