invalid

Example Sentences

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He also revealed that about 5% of the ballots cast were "invalid", or spoilt.

From BBC

However, on Feb. 21, Russia’s Central Election Commission declared more than 9,000 of the signatures submitted by Nadezhdin’s campaign invalid — enough to disqualify him from the race.

From Seattle Times

However, the authors assert that if the data were entirely invalid due to some psychological and sociological cause, then there would be no spatial pattern.

From Science Daily

While Nadezhdin was eventually barred from the ballot by election officials who tossed out many signatures as invalid, the massive show of opposition sympathies clearly embarrassed the Kremlin.

From Seattle Times

Providence has fallen far since the Sisters of Providence incorporated in 1859 with the Washington territorial government for “the relief of needy and suffering humanity, in the care of orphans, invalids, the sick and poor. …”

From Seattle Times