Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
absence de sens donné au vote
English translation:
unclear vote
French term
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absence de sens donné au vote
Article 22 - Adoption des décisions collectives
Pour le calcul de la majorité, il est tenu compte de la totalité des actions présentes ou représentées pouvant participer au vote. Toute abstention ou absence de sens donné au vote est considérée comme un vote négatif.
Does this mean something along the lines of a "meaningless vote"?
Thanks for any help!
| 4 +1 | unclear vote |
Daryo
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| 4 | blank, spoiled, or invalid vote |
philgoddard
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| 4 | imprecise vote |
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PRO (2): philgoddard, Daryo
When entering new questions, KudoZ askers are given an opportunity* to classify the difficulty of their questions as 'easy' or 'pro'. If you feel a question marked 'easy' should actually be marked 'pro', and if you have earned more than 20 KudoZ points, you can click the "Vote PRO" button to recommend that change.
How to tell the difference between "easy" and "pro" questions:
An easy question is one that any bilingual person would be able to answer correctly. (Or in the case of monolingual questions, an easy question is one that any native speaker of the language would be able to answer correctly.)
A pro question is anything else... in other words, any question that requires knowledge or skills that are specialized (even slightly).
Another way to think of the difficulty levels is this: an easy question is one that deals with everyday conversation. A pro question is anything else.
When deciding between easy and pro, err on the side of pro. Most questions will be pro.
* Note: non-member askers are not given the option of entering 'pro' questions; the only way for their questions to be classified as 'pro' is for a ProZ.com member or members to re-classify it.
Proposed translations
unclear vote
this way it's just one word, covering all variants of "meaningless vote" -
Toute abstention ou absence de sens donné au vote est considérée comme un vote négatif.
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IOW any vote that is not unambiguously a "yes" will be considered as a "no" vote
Court vacates union representation, citing unclear deciding vote
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https://www.theindianalawyer.com/articles/44055-court-vacate...
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writeaway
: in line with Polyglot's suggestion in the discussion box
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United States
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blank, spoiled, or invalid vote
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writeaway
: any refs? afaik there are already clear Fr words for blank and invalid votes.
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United Kingdom
Sensible solutions
Native in: English (Variant: Wessexois) 
Works in: French to English, English, English to French
imprecise vote
scienceblogs.com/worldsciencefestival/2010/08/05/85-of-statistics-are-false-or/
5 Aug 2010 - Lost votes and misinterpreted ballots will lead to imprecise vote totals, but another type of systematic error is more common today. Visiting ...
Heuristic algorithm for interpretation of multi-valued ... - ScienceDirect
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0888613X10000642...
by RA Angryk - 2010 - Cited by 35 - Related articles
15 Jun 2010 - During complete data specialization we want the fractions of an imprecise vote to be assigned to separate concepts from A0 set in such way ...
Florence Morning News from Florence, South Carolina on July 12 ...
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/66911948/
Celler said some provisions of the hill are vague and imprecise vote in the Rules Committee despite some doubts expressed nounced by Miss Virginia Kav-enel, .
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