The word 'miscount' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a verb meaning to count incorrectly or to make a mistake when counting. Example: "I miscounted the number of guests and ended up not having enough food for everyone at the party."
The government is taking no chances: already, it has put up a steel barricade around the electoral offices, where officials will count, or miscount, the votes.
In 2006 Dutch campaigners rigged a device to miscount votes (and then taught it to play chess).Yet electronic machines do help in poorer places, where paper elections are trickiest to organise.
The Government was forced to fend off fresh accusations of incompetence yesterday after it delayed the controversial badger cull in England, blaming the Olympics, bad weather and a miscount of the animals for the retreat.
A miscount, claimed King: Morgan had assigned him an extra wife.
They cited its permitting of overvoting, and they stated, "The computer program... can possibly be modified by an experienced data-processing person, causing the computer to miscount votes cast for a particular race".
Declarer won with dummy's ace, trumped a spade, ruffed a club and trumped another spade to give this position, South needing three more tricks (see Diagram 1): Note that West hid his spade deuce to try to make declarer miscount the distribution.
Then, when the tally of votes was published, it seemed as if they might have been miscounted, and the directive passed after all.
On July 16th, several hundred thousand supporters of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the left-of-centre candidate, gathered in Mexico City to support their man's claim that he was robbed of victory in the election on July 2nd by fraud, or at least miscounting.
See the full data.Correction: Readers spotted that the original version of this chart had miscounted mutton for many countries.
Although the Bush administration claims to be meeting that goal, these groups complain that many contracts are being miscounted, since they are in fact being funnelled to big companies.In this section Waiting for Baker Airing grievances They want to be left alone Back in fashion Burmese days Decapod duels Unintended consequences A national party no more?
Whatever the motives behind its miscounting of revenues, it had the effect of disguising how much Tesco was having to sacrifice profits to limit the decline in sales.Hard discounters differ from standard supermarkets in several important ways.
