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How To Use Miscount In A Sentence

  • Coincidentally, the boating people also realised that they must have miscounted, and jets set out scouring the seas for them.
  • I immediately pointed out that I thought there had been a miscount.
  • Many Ukrainians feel that they have witnessed a electoral theft that makes the Florida miscount look like a petty candy shoplifting spree.
  • Thanks to a census miscount in 2001, when 30,000 people were missed off the list, Manchester's health services were deprived of millions, as the Health Department did not take the extra patients into account when calculating its budget.
  • There apparently was a miscount, by the Pentagon or news organizations or both. Names of the dead mean more than numbers
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  • Sorry, I miscounted - we need ten copies, not nine.
  • We will be counting the loss of that census miscount for years unless the cash is refunded.
  • The miscount rates were all far in excess of the accuracy rate required for voting systems by the federal Help America Vote Act HAVA. Brad Friedman: Why Joe Miller Should Call for a Transparent 'Hand Count' of All Ballots Cast in Alaska
  • I discovered four magic words, ‘voting machines and glitch,’ which, when entered into a search engine, yielded a shocking result: A staggering pile of miscounts was accumulating.
  • He said that improvements to the Immigration and Nationality Directorate's procedures had been introduced to prevent a repeat of the miscount.
  • But her mother still said that she had miscounted.
  • The shopkeeper miscount, so we get twenty five bar of chocolate instead of two dozen.
  • Mayor Daly needs to run some more seminars on how to miscount the vote before West Virginia and Kentucky. Indiana not a record-breaker yet
  • He miscounted and for a ghastly moment thought he had overshot the seventh floor and was about to be turned upside down or mangled in the winding gear.
  • Of the others, one runner miscounted his circuits and ran one lap too few, and the other gave up after being lapped by all four Harriers competitors.
  • We lost on election night, but got a call from the secretary of state 10 hours later to say there was a miscount and we had actually won.
  • We've always had at the margins, Larry, some, you know, some miscounts.
  • An accountant is worried that he will miscount money, so he counts it again and again.
  • I thought we had enough plates for the party, but perhaps I miscounted.
  • Colonel Tucker paused and enjoyed the murmur of chatter his intentional miscount had provoked before continuing with, ‘Just a moment, my count may be in error.’
  • It's mere padding until the ill-fated scuba diving trip, where a miscount by the boat crew leads to Susan and Daniel resurfacing only to find they've been left behind.
  • The machine could well be rigged for a miscount, only with voter choices printed accurately.
  • If they discover that the election was miscounted, reimburse them.
  • Cheryl and I thought we had just miscounted because we were tired.
  • Ivan Denisovich, due to a cook's miscount, manages to swipe two extra bowls.
  • Of the others, one runner miscounted his circuits and ran one lap too few, and the other gave up after being lapped by all four Harriers competitors.
  • Explaining the miscount, another told jurors: ‘The tourists are constantly moving around you.’
  • Babbling brats would congregate near my truck, waving their miscounted sticky change in little grubby fists.
  • One of the silly arguments of those deafening poorly designed electronic voting machines is that there's never been any evidence that they miscount votes.
  • The G.A.O. concluded, quote, "Some of these concerns were reported to have caused local problems at federal elections, resulting in the loss or miscount of votes. Elizabeth Edwards: John Wanted To "Fight" 2004 Election Results, Was Overruled
  • Overall, Seattle's schools have had adequate funding; the problem is how, in the past, the district has misspent, and miscounted, its money.
  • Plenty of distraught candidates have gone to court accusing the voting machines of miscounting their votes, but to little avail.
  • Fast forwarding the dull bits, the couple gets left behind in the open sea while the boat, due to an unfortunate miscount, sets off without them.
  • I've been using the kitchen balance scale and must have miscounted the total of the little brass weights.
  • Sorry, I miscounted - we need ten copies, not nine.
  • Art won a race by accident when the three leading aircraft pulled up and out of the race after miscounting the number of laps.
  • Census Bureau officials announced that they miscounted the nation's official population by 5 million people.
  • What's more, it leaves behind paper ballots that can be checked in case a manual recount is needed or if someone suspects that the computer has miscounted.
  • I got up about an hour ago to see if somehow America had suddenly realized last night was a huge miscount.
  • As for the claims that there is going to be a massive miscount on these particular counties, a representative of the state from the attorney general's office, said that that is strictly speculation.
  • Did you forget to show me the last one or did I just miscount the number of rooms?
  • I've been using the kitchen balance scale and must have miscounted the total of the little brass weights.
  • Sorry, I miscounted - we need ten copies, not nine.
  • I guess I can only hope that I've miscounted, and that there is someone I missed hiding under a rock somewhere.
  • Count how many bounces he makes as he travels across the surface of the water and don't worry if you miscount as the splashes will leave ripple rings for you to go back and count again when he finally stops somewhere out across the water.
  • He had assumed they had run off or were simply ‘missing’ because their herders had miscounted.
  • Second, I can't help but cast a somewhat skeptical eye at assertions that Obama's polling numbers are understated because they miscount/undercount the youth vote. Poll: Obama, Romney Ahead In Iowa
  • The votes were deliberately miscounted.
  • No, we forged westward; I guess miscounts of the axles are a common occurrence.
  • Unfortunately, Americans don't seem to get mad about the possibility that votes were lost or miscounted unless they think it caused their side to lose an election.
  • But at a day-long meeting to address the issue with Wright family members, the employees were able to keep the focus of the discussion on improving the inventory process, rather than assigning blame for the miscount.
  • But she must have read the calendar wrong, or miscounted.
  • But election officials in California say there have never been any known miscounts or fraud involving the machines.
  • To compound the problem, when the head count was done by the senior instructor on board, he miscounted.

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