diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ecfc584..c69ef51 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -241,10 +241,10 @@ test_eq(math_evaluator.eq("\\frac{2003}{2}", "1001"), False)
 #### Normalized Majority Voting
 
 ``` python
-math_evaluator.get_maj_answers(["1", "2", "3", "3", "3"])
+math_evaluator.get_maj_answers(["", "", "1", "2", "2", "3", "3", "3"])
 ```
 
-    ['1', '1', '1', '3', '3']
+    ['', '', '1', '1', '2', '2', '2', '3']
 
 ### Parsing LaTeX
 
diff --git a/nbs/index.ipynb b/nbs/index.ipynb
index d1800b5..ad75366 100644
--- a/nbs/index.ipynb
+++ b/nbs/index.ipynb
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@
     {
      "data": {
       "text/plain": [
-       "['1', '1', '1', '3', '3']"
+       "['', '', '1', '1', '2', '2', '2', '3']"
       ]
      },
      "execution_count": null,
@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@
     }
    ],
    "source": [
-    "math_evaluator.get_maj_answers([\"1\", \"2\", \"3\", \"3\", \"3\"])"
+    "math_evaluator.get_maj_answers([\"\", \"\", \"1\", \"2\", \"2\", \"3\", \"3\", \"3\"])"
    ]
   },
   {
diff --git a/symeval/core.py b/symeval/core.py
index d95eb70..9b515d2 100644
--- a/symeval/core.py
+++ b/symeval/core.py
@@ -221,7 +221,9 @@ def get_maj_answers(self, answers: List[str]) -> List[str]:
                     break
             else:
                 ans_votes[answer] += 1
-            maj_ans: str = ans_votes.most_common(1)[0][0]
+            maj_ans = ans_votes.most_common(1)[0][0]
+            if maj_ans == "" and len(ans_votes) > 1:
+                maj_ans = ans_votes.most_common(2)[1][0]
             maj_answers.append(maj_ans)
 
         return maj_answers
@@ -506,14 +508,14 @@ def latex2sympy_interval(
 DEF_PERCENT_REL_TOL = 1e-3
 
 
-def has_non_ascii(s) -> bool:
+def has_non_ascii(s: str) -> bool:
     for char in s:
         if ord(char) > 127:
             return True
     return False
 
 
-def is_querying4set(query) -> bool:
+def is_querying4set(query: str) -> bool:
     return "ind the" in query or ("all" in query and "separate" in query)