tabulator
a person or thing that tabulates.
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How to use tabulator in a sentence
Tabulators then revisit all the ballots that went to that last-place candidate and redistribute their votes to the candidates listed as second choice on those voter’s ballots.
D.C. debates whether to switch to a ranked-choice voting system | Julie Weil | November 18, 2021 | Washington PostCounty officials said this week that they would replace voting equipment and tabulators that had been handled by the contractors out of concerns that the review process has compromised the equipment’s security.
Ballots and voting equipment are moved again as review of 2020 election drags on in Arizona’s Maricopa County | Rosalind Helderman | July 1, 2021 | Washington PostEach of those ballots must be fed into the tabulator one at a time.
I've been studying the design of the Election tabulator, and I've discovered a wonderful opportunity for you and me.
The House from Nowhere | Arthur G. StanglandFinally, he said, "Do you know what the penalty is for jimmying the tabulator to influence voting?"
The House from Nowhere | Arthur G. Stangland
"They sent 'tabulator' Burke up for ballot frauds," said a voter who stood up in a far corner.
The Landloper | Holman DayThe tabulator in either form does not interfere with the use of the machine for other work, such as correspondence, etc.
The Library of Work and Play: Mechanics, Indoors and Out | Fred T. HodgsonThe invention of the tabulator has enormously increased the scope of the machine in this direction.
The Library of Work and Play: Mechanics, Indoors and Out | Fred T. Hodgson
British Dictionary definitions for tabulator
/ (ˈtæbjʊˌleɪtə) /
a device for setting the automatic stops that locate the column margins on a typewriter
computing a machine that reads data from one medium, such as punched cards, producing lists, tabulations, or totals, usually on a continuous sheet of paper
any machine that tabulates data
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