In the alternative vote, ballot exhaustion occurs when a voter's ballot can no longer be counted, because all candidates on that ballot have been eliminated from an election.
Contributors to ballot exhaustion include: This may occur because the voter chooses not to fill out a complete preference ranking,[6] or because the ballot format itself limits the number of preferences that may be expressed.
[7][8] This results in "exhausted" or "inactive" ballots.
[9] For example, in Minneapolis, the city limits voters to 3 rankings of candidates on ballots for city elections.
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