1.   An undervote occurs when a ballot goes through the counting machine without registering a vote in a particular race.

2.   As members registered votes on procedural matters, dissident unionist Jim Shannon began voting in the Ulster Scots language.

3.   Brace testified that older and poorly maintained voting machines could sometimes fail to register a vote with a fully punched hole.

4.   Absentee ballots were hand-punched, the Republicans argued, so there was no excuse for not punching through them and clearly registering a vote.

5.   All these are ballots that when counted by machine did not register a vote for president.

6.   But once he made his final decision and pressed the red button to his right, the vote was registered and he could no longer change his mind.

7.   But they are used to register protest votes.

8.   By last night, Adams was registering his votes in Irish, English, and Ulster Scots.

9.   By that stroke, you can both register a vote for campaign reform, secure in the knowledge it would not have the remotest chance of enactment.

10.   De Courtivron made sure his vote was registered.