{"id":11516,"date":"2026-03-12T18:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T22:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=11516"},"modified":"2026-03-12T18:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T22:54:10","slug":"undervotes-for-town-council-and-school-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=11516","title":{"rendered":"Undervotes for Town Council and School Board"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had posted about undervotes on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TownUnderground\/posts\/pfbid02K5vt2CbbJD1dr8osaVQcVQnyTNxKkCxJYAYLnVPshPuRfa3dAYPVkmbYcWRJqnWMl\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TownUnderground\/posts\/pfbid02K5vt2CbbJD1dr8osaVQcVQnyTNxKkCxJYAYLnVPshPuRfa3dAYPVkmbYcWRJqnWMl\">Facebook Page<\/a> earlier today. I found it interesting that a out of 4,662 ballots cast a number of people chose not to vote for a Town Councilor or School Board member. There were other undervotes for other positions as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An \u201cundervote\u201d on a New Hampshire ballot means that a voter left a race blank\u2014they did not select a candidate or option for that specific contest. The rest of the ballot can still be counted normally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this case the option was &#8216;select two&#8217; for Town Council and School Board so an undervote would be a resident that did not vote for any candidate or voted for only one candidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"456\" height=\"373\" src=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/TC_Undervootes_2026.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/TC_Undervootes_2026.png 456w, https:\/\/townunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/TC_Undervootes_2026-300x245.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"447\" height=\"335\" src=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SB_Undervotes_2026.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SB_Undervotes_2026.png 447w, https:\/\/townunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SB_Undervotes_2026-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had posted about undervotes on the Facebook Page earlier today. I found it interesting that a out of 4,662 ballots cast a number of people chose not to vote for a Town Councilor or School Board member. There were other undervotes for other positions as well. An \u201cundervote\u201d on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11520,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11516\/revisions\/11520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}