'scrutineer' is correct and usable in written English
It is a noun meaning a person who is assigned to examine and authenticate results in an election or other similar official process. Example sentence: The scrutineers were tasked with counting each ballot by hand.
Nice one New Labour's report card Bus pass ReprintsThe sorry record of the state's high-tech debacles has been set out time and again by the official scrutineer of public expenditure, the National Audit Office NAOO), headed by Sir John Bourn, the comptroller and auditor general.
TOM PAULIN, a British poet and literary critic, is a subtle scrutineer of language.
When asked to stand up the claims, Fox News pointed to the BBC's recent appointment of an independent scrutineer of its Middle East coverage (which, Fox said, has a pro-Arab bias).
Mr Thakkar, scrutineer of the Indian water scene, says that although the installed capacity of India's hydro projects increased at a compound rate of 4.4% a year between 1991 and 2005, the amount of energy generated actually fell.
He wants his party to be "an independent scrutineer of government activity", he says, and for its politicians, if elected, to act as "investigative journalists", uncovering dishonesty and pressing for an end to government and corporate secrecy.
The book's editor, Helen Conford, is thanked at the end and praised as a "steady scrutineer".… In the early to mid-eighties in New York, being part of the downtown rock community involved a tangible commitment to extremity.
But Garner is, above all, a savage self-scrutineer: her honesty has less to do with what she sees in the world than with what she refuses to turn away from in herself.
When the parties are failing - low turnout last month is the best evidence to hand - independent scrutineers such as the commission and the committee on standards in public life become guarantors of pub lic confidence in the system.
The compensation committee told the outside scrutineers that it had not realised Dr McGuire had stood to gain so much.The report also noted that William Spears, the chairman of the compensation committee, had been a trustee for Dr McGuire's children and had managed some of his family's investments.
"In Jamaica scrutineers come to your homes to check," says Miss Hanna.
But fending off the scrutineers that way is getting harder.
