vote tallying
Summing electoral choices
Vote tallying is the process of counting votes in an election or other decision-making procedure.
The term emphasizes the mechanical act of aggregation—adding up ballots, recording totals, verifying counts: Vote tallying continued through the night as results trickled in.
In contested elections, vote tallying becomes scrutinized for accuracy and potential irregularities.
- ballotVoting document
- ballot boxContainer for cast votes
- countingDetermining quantity sequentially
- hand countCounting done manually
- electionOrganized public voting
swing state · recount · results · polling · election night · tabulation · precinct · poll workers · officials · machines · scrutiny · observers · disputed · too close to call · margin · certified · auditing · paper
- voting technologyoptical scanner, tabulator, ballot box, paper ballot, counting machine
- electionsballot, ballots, candidates, polls, election day
vote tallyingcampaigning
Actively pursuing political support
voter registration · candidate nomination · get-out-the-vote · political advertising · ballot casting
vote tallyingvote suppression
Discouraging or preventing casting ballots
vote rigging · election fraud · electoral manipulation · disenfranchisement · voter disenfranchisement
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