Sentence examples for voter tabulation from inspiring English sources
Therefore, an "error in the vote tabulation" includes a discrepancy between the number of votes determined by a voter tabulation system and the number of voters determined by a manual count of a sampling of precincts pursuant to section 102.166(4).
You set a firm deadline and you make sure that everybody gets their votes in at the same time and if there are any problems in terms of voter tabulations or to the kinds of questions that we've done, you've got to keep to that deadline so you'll have time to do the election contest after that.
Mr. Butterworth, the chairman of Mr. Gore's statewide campaign here, argued that the relevant law refers "not to an error in the vote tabulation system but to an error in the vote tabulation," and that under Mr. Roberts's interpretation, disputed votes "would be rejected even if a human review of the ballot revealed the voters' choice among candidates".
The error in vote tabulation might be caused by a mechanical malfunction in the operation of the vote counting system, but the error might also result from the failure of a properly functioning mechanical system to discern the choices of the voters as revealed by the ballots.
Equating "vote tabulation" with "vote tabulation system" obliterates the distinction created in section 102.166 by the Legislature.
We resent the obvious ineptness in Florida's vote tabulation.
Sections 101.5614 5) and (6) also support the proposition that the "error in vote tabulation" encompasses more than a mere determination of whether the vote tabulation system is functioning.
n The plain language of section 102.166 5) refers to an error in the vote tabulation rather than the vote tabulation system.
An error in the vote tabulation means a counting error in which the vote tabulation system fails to count properly marked marksense or properly punched punchcard ballots.
Yet the division, by reading "vote tabulation" and "vote tabulation system" as synonymous, blurs the distinctions that the Legislature clearly delineated in section 102.166.
The opinion ignores the plain language of the statute which refers not to an error in the vote tabulation system but to an error in the vote tabulation.
