Sentence examples for the final tabulation from inspiring English sources

The entire "chain of custody" of the voting, from the casting of ballots to the final tabulation, must be kept secure.

Voters should be able to monitor every aspect of electronic voting, from the purchase of machines to the final tabulation of votes, and offered enough training that they can understand what they are seeing.

The Florida Supreme Court must assure such a count by ruling early this week that Ms. Harris has to accept the hand counts from the contested counties plus the complete absentee totals in producing the final tabulation.

The Legislature, dominated by Republicans, is poised to award the state's 25 electors to Mr. Bush, even with the final tabulation of votes in doubt, potentially creating constitutional -- and political -- chaos.

It should be possible to complete the final tabulation of votes in Florida by the end of the week, if the Republicans quickly drop their attempts to stop the hand counting.

Though the issue may well wind up back in Supreme Court, it could be Judge Lewis who issues the first ruling on whether the hand counts wind up in the final tabulation.

If the final tabulations put Mr. Gore ahead, the Florida court could still in theory let Ms. Harris ignore the recounts.

However, the final tallies used to weight the final tabulations included absentees.

Since no write-in votes were reported, however, the weighting of the final tabulations did not reflect votes that could have increased the total vote by as much as 5%.

The exit poll questionnaire had a response option for other ("Other: Who? _______") that, presumably, would have been chosen by write-in voters (though I am not sure how the exit pollsters handled any such responses in the final tabulations).

Tom Feeney, the speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, said the Legislature believed that the Florida Supreme Court overstepped its bounds and changed the state's election laws on Tuesday when it unanimously ruled to require the inclusion of manual recounts in the state's final tabulation of votes.