miscounting

Its first line of defense, that miscounting would be minimized by "the best census ever," has become a national joke.

But the loss, invalidation and miscounting of ballots confirms the paradox.

The Tax Foundation's miscounting of nontax taxes alone overstates the federal tax burden by one-seventh.

But a great story on the front page of the Washington Post "Style" section reveals some blatant miscounting behind the PR blitz.

The electoral commission at the district was the slowest and the public involvement surely did not help to speed up the process, however a possible miscounting was prevented.

The first is to claim that the 2000 Florida election was corruptly conducted - whether through a Republican-engineered miscounting of votes, bureaucratic obstruction (misleading ballots, etc.) or partisanship on the Supreme Court.

After 14 years of frustrating litigation, New York and other major cities have won a major judicial ruling that holds out hope for correcting the Census Bureau's habitual miscounting of the nation's population.

A state judge yesterday rejected the Rev. Al Sharpton's bid for a runoff in the Democratic mayoral primary, saying there was no evidence of "false votes or any excessive miscounting" in the Sept. 9 vote and no basis to question the result.

The results in both parties changed little: Republican results changed only by 1 vote for Romney, while Democrats changed less than 1 percent, much of which was due to vote miscounting was Ward 5 in Manchester, where votes for the top candidates dropped after the recount.

In their own statement, the two opposition leaders complained of "missing ballots, polling station workers marking ballots for voters, purposeful miscounting of ballots, threats to observers, insufficient party agents and observers allowed to watch the counting, improper moving of ballots at night and unexplained delays in reporting results."

Bingo grooms Sharkey as foundling prince and literary hatchet man of the Marsh empire; Sharkey, in turn, devotedly corrects Bingo's chronic miscounting of the seven deadly sins, tags along on his boss's stolen afternoons at Japanese monster movies, and fancies himself as Bingo's thin pipeline to reality.