vote counter
Election night worker
A vote counter is a person or device that tallies votes in an election or other formal decision-making process.
The term covers both poll workers who manually count ballots and machines that automate the process: The vote counters worked through the night to finish the tally.
In contested elections, vote counters often face intense scrutiny.
- tallyRecorded count
- ballotVoting document
- ballot boxContainer for cast votes
- pollingSystematic opinion gathering
- polling stationElection day venue
election · election night · tabulator · precinct · scrutineer · booth · chad · hanging chad · machine · official · poll worker · observer · results · paper · scanner · hand · manual · certification
- counterscounters, tally, clicker, tally marks, tallies
- poll workerspoll worker, election judge, registrar, tabulator, greeter
- voting technologyoptical scanner, tabulator, ballot box, paper ballot, punch card
- number workersbookkeeper, auditor, CPA, comptroller, controller
- voting equipmentballot box, optical scanner, tabulator, booth, poll book
- calculating machinescalculator, adding machine, difference engine, abacus, desk calculator