hand count

collocation in English

meaningsofhandandcount

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hand
noun
uk
/hænd/us
/hænd/
the part of the body at the end of the arm that is used for holding, moving, touching, and ...
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count
noun
uk
/kaʊnt/us
/kaʊnt/
the act of counting, or the total number of ...
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(Definition ofhandandcountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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I do not know what thehandcountshowed except that it was obviously close and was what gave rise to the suggestion for a secret ballot.
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In this version, the number of bids can not equal thehandcountof the game.
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Generally, systems thathandcountthe ballots will tabulate the ballots only after the close of polling.
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Ahandcount, therefore, is only likely to be feasible in simple elections with a small number of candidates and voters.
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Some house rules include a provision that a player wins the game automatically if he is dealt ahandcountof 13 or under.
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After thehandcount, the sample is fed into the tabulator.
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They suggested that this indicates that precincts were selected that would match the machine count, in order to prevent a county-widehandcount, i.e. that it was staged.
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The 3% must be randomly selected, and all hand counts are to be performed in public (with observers).
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These include hand counted paper ballots, mechanical lever machines, punch cards, optically scanned paper ballots, and electronic voting machines.
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Otherwise, the hand is finished with all cards in each player's hand counting against them.
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The points for each player are tallied, with the points in hand counted against the player(s) who did not end the round.
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It builds on previous research establishing strong links between linguistic patterns and personality or psychological state, but makes possible far more detailed results than did hand counts.
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It mostly only tabulates the numbers from the 130,000 sets of official paperwork (the actas) for the hand counts previously done for all of the 130,000 precincts.
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