Mr. Schechter explained that inspectors of election were appointed by the board -- or the person presiding over the meeting -- to conduct the election, determine the eligibility of voters and the validity of proxies, count the ballots and make a written report of the election results.
The validity of pill counts to assess adherence relies on the assumption that unreturned tablets were ingested by the participant; however, estimates of adherence may be severely biased if unreturned tablets do not reflect actual product use.
The stereological measurement of the numbers of small follicles in the ovaries of 29 prepubertal elephant calves and 6 late gestation fetuses revealed a wide between-animal variation in numbers (range 303 084–2 456 741) during the period; the close agreement in follicle numbers between the two ovaries of each animal gave great confidence as to the validity of the counting method [ 51].
"The symbolism of the number is starting to take priority over the academic validity of the count," Mr. Murray said.
But then Congress must formally count the ballots in January, and if but one senator and one representative disagree with the result, each chamber must vote on the validity of the count.
As Mr. Richard noted, Ms. Harris and her subordinates have issued several opinions rejecting the validity of hand counts, and Democrats have suggested that she did so out of political loyalty to her party and the Bush family.
The validity of the counts of diseased nails reported by the patients participating in these surveys has not been established.
We conducted sensitivity analysis to examine the validity of our count measure of convictions from wave 4, which was originally reported as an ordinal variable.
In order to assess the validity of streamline count estimations, a control condition was introduced where the ratio of streamlines terminating in area V3A against those terminating in regions V1, V2 or V3 was used as an estimate of the false-positive rate of the tractography method.
Thus, a type of validity claim counts as distinct from other types only if one can establish that its discursive justification involves features that distinguish it from other types of justification.
