vote counter
- noun
- /voʊt ˈkaʊntər/
- Specialized
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máquina de votación
- The county deployed a digital vote counter that tallies ballots in real time.
Examples
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During the audit, technicians recalibrated the malfunctioning vote counter to ensure accurate results.
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Vendors advertised a new cloud-based vote counter able to process thousands of precinct ballots quickly.
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The vote counter malfunctioned during the election.
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Many vote counters were used in the last election.
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The county deployed a digital vote counter that tallies ballots in real time.
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During the audit, technicians recalibrated the malfunctioning vote counter to ensure accurate results.
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Vendors advertised a new cloud-based vote counter able to process thousands of precinct ballots quickly.
Synonyms
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3.4
A person or machine that keeps a total of items
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A machine that records and counts votes in an election
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A computer or online system that collects and counts votes
A person or machine that checks voters and records ballots
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a device or system that tallies votes' is directly derivable from combining 'vote' (an instance/tally in an election) with 'counter' (a person or device that keeps a count). The noun-noun composition 'X counter' meaning 'something that counts X' is a regular, cross-linguistically common pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer this meaning.
Etymology
Vote counter for a machine borrows the same literal idea: a device that 'counts' votes like a mechanical counter, so the name came to mean 'an electronic device or software that tallies ballots'.