A normal undervote in any given race is less than 3 percent.

Let me get an understanding of what your position is, that we're talking about when we say an undervote.

According to recent news reports, variations in the undervote rate are even more pronounced.

Their report said they could find no flaws in the code that would lead to such a large undervote.

Third, even in counties that have attempted to separate the undervote, there are serious problems.

Poor ballot design was widely acknowledged as the cause of the undervote.

In contrast, he said, the undervote among absentee ballots was only 2.5 percent.

The subsequent investigation found that the undervote was not caused by software error.

They would not even start separating the undervote ballots.

And why would this not require, if any judicial relief, that be applied in a statewide undervote?

That compares with undervote rates ranging from 2.2 to 5.3 percent in neighboring counties.

"But in most instances they're not set to kick back to the voter if there is an undervote.

Those so called undervote ballots were mixed up with the rest of the ballots.

The ballots that showed a presidential vote but no Senate vote are called the "undervote."

A single such vote would appear as both an undervote and an overvote in the analyses and reports mentioned above.

In the four other counties where voters cast ballots in the same race, the undervote percentage was far smaller.

Every undervote - the name given to ballots with no machine-readable vote for president - was viewed separately by three coders.

The undervote rates in the district's other counties were far less than in Sarasota County.

An undervote can be intentional for purposes including protest votes, tactical voting, or abstention.

However, in order for the plaintiffs to meet this burden, the undervote ballots must be preliminarily manually recounted.

It's unclear what caused the undervote.

"Absolute assurance is impossible to achieve because we are unable to recreate the conditions of the election in which the undervote occurred," the report notes.

The so-called undervote rate in the county for that race was 13 percent, more than double what it was in any other county.

Again, no accidental undervote appeared.

While punch ballots have a higher undervote rate than optical ballots, it's the reverse with overvotes.