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tally room

noun

Etymology

From tally (“an account or score”) + room.

Definitions

  1. A room in which votes are counted.

    • I do not say with any criminal intent as to coercing this man, but he takes him away, and he is immediately hoisted upon the shoulders of the people, and they carry him off to Mr. Whitworth′s tally-rooms;[…].
    • The Tally Room at the Electoral Commission becomes a hive of activity after 6 p.m. when the polling places close. All the results from the Returning Officers are phoned through to the tally room.

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