What (who) is Recount - definition
RECOUNT OF VOTES, DUE TO CLOSE MARGINS OR HUMAN ERRORS
Recount; Judicial recount; Automatic recount; Vote recount; Recount procedures; Vote recount procedures; Election recounts
![Recounting [[optical-scan ballot]]s by hand in the [[United States Senate election in Minnesota, 2008]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2008recountMN.JPG?width=200 "Recounting [[optical-scan ballot]]s by hand in the [[United States Senate election in Minnesota, 2008]].")
recount
v. a.
Rehearse, relate, recite, narrate, enumerate, detail, describe, particularize, tell, give an account of, repeat.
recount
recount1 [r?'ka?nt]
¦ verb give an account of something.
Origin
ME: from Old North. Fr. reconter 'tell again', based on OFr. counter (see count1).
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recount2
¦ verb ri:'ka?nt count again.
¦ noun 'ri:ka?nt an act of counting something again.
recount
(recounted)
1.
If you recount a story or event, you tell or describe it to people. (FORMAL)
He then recounted the story of the interview for his first job...
He recounted how heavily armed soldiers forced him from the presidential palace.
VERB: V n, V wh
2.
A recount is a second count of votes in an election when the result is very close.
She wanted a recount. She couldn't believe that I had got more votes than her.
N-COUNT
Wikipedia
Election recount
An election recount is a repeat tabulation of votes cast in an election that is used to determine the correctness of an initial count. Recounts will often take place if the initial vote tally during an election is extremely close. Election recounts will often result in changes in contest tallies. Errors can be found or introduced from human factors, such as transcription errors, or machine errors, such as misreads of paper ballots.
Pronunciation examples for Recount
1. Recount all the different ways
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2. And we had a recount.
Al Franken, Giant of the Senate _ Al Franken _ Talks at Google
3. He loved to recount stories
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4. in an interesting ballot recount,
The End of the End of the Earth _ Jonathan Franzen _ Talks at Google
5. It's fantastically a detailed recount
Howard Markel _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of Recount
1. A recount is currently taking place for the presidential election and a partial recount of the parliamentary votes.
2. Recount Election officials said they would declare a winner only when the recount was completed later on Thursday.
3. Calderon insisted a total recount was unnecessary.
4. The remainder of Franklin County‘s recount will be conducted by electronic machines because no discrepancies were found in the manual recount of more than 15,000 votes.
5. The country‘s electoral court has said that a full recount would be illegal and instead held a partial recount of '% of ballot boxes.