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mistabulate

verb

Etymology

From mis- + tabulate.

  1. derived from *teh₂-✻
  2. derived from tabulātus — “having a floor; floored”
  3. prefixed as mistabulate — “mis + tabulate”

Definitions

  1. To tabulate incorrectly.

    • To illustrate, should the machine operator mistabulate the amount of $534.28, and start writing in the tens of dollars column, the keys automatically lock upon attempting to write "4."
    • These pressures might lead them, in Conk's view, to deliberately mistabulate the enumerators' records, biasing the published occupation figures to show fewer women in "men's" ccupations and fewer children at work.
    • Challenges may be based on allegations that elections officials or voting machines mistabulated the ballots or on charges of election fraud, which could result in a change in the result if enough ballots were invalidated.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA