The phrase "a tabulation error" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a mistake made during the process of organizing or presenting data in a tabular format.
Example: "After reviewing the spreadsheet, I discovered a tabulation error that affected the final results."
Alternatives: "a data entry mistake" or "a calculation error".
One requires that when an election result is in doubt as a result of tabulation error, there be a hand recount (a long, laborious and subjective process); the other says that final results must be delivered within a week of Election Day.
In the context of the statute as a whole, manual recounts are treated quite extensively, as a last resort, in a -- for tabulation error, at the discretion of canvassing officials.
Through an error of punctuation Time ran the following rather astonishing post-election item: "In Minneapolis the discovery of a 10,000-vote tabulation error put snaggle-toothed William J. Gallagher, 69, a retired street sweeper, and Henry George, single-taxer, into the House".
Remember, in response to the question from I think it was Justice Scalia the last time we were here, this is the first time we've had a manual recount for anything other than arithmetic tabulation error.
Posner says the Florida court and its defenders have confused tabulation error with voter error.
The St. Lucie County Canvassing Board voted 2 to 1 late Friday to order the recount after Representative Allen B. West, a Republican, complained about a series of tabulation errors.
Authorities are sometimes confused by the patchwork of state and federal hate crime laws and don't know when to report; others mistakenly believe that an incident has to be prosecuted as a hate crime to count as one; and still others make tabulation errors, sometimes exacerbated by the use of outdated reporting methods, having not yet implemented the National Incident-Based ReportiNational Incident-Based
"At one point, we had tabulation errors in twenty-eight per cent of the systems tested, and nobody cared".
Provided that the local authorities are relatively honest, tabulation errors should be random, meaning they will run both ways.
