to retabulate
- verb
- /ˌriːˈtæbjʊleɪt/
- Specialized
- Election officials will retabulate the ballots to ensure all votes are accurately counted.
Examples
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After discovering an error, the team decided to retabulate the survey results for better accuracy.
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I'm not sure it's a mistake to retabulate, given the questions that seem legitimate.
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Votes are to be retabulated in the Florida congressional race.
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Election officials will begin retabulating the roughly 20,000 additional early votes at 9 a.m. on Saturday, he said.
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If the trailing candidate were a Democrat, I think most people here would support at least retabulating the rest of the early votes.
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But I don't think it is bad for anyone if they demonstrate it by retabulating the rest of the early ballots.
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Starting at 9 a.m. on Saturday, election officials will retabulate a total of 33,379 ballots from all eight days of early voting in St. Lucie County, he explained.
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It isn't obvious how retabulating some votes for cause undermines the process as a whole.
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Before the canvassing board voted, state Division of Elections official David Drury made a personal recommendation that all early votes in the county be retabulated after officials realized there were 304 early voting ballots that were never counted.
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The accounting department will retabulate the financial data following the recent updates to the records.
Synonyms
To calculate numbers again to correct or update them
To calculate something again to update or correct it
To calculate numbers again after a mistake or new information
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word retabulate is made of the parts re- 'again' and tabula 'table', the same root behind English table and tabulate. So to retabulate is to make the tables again — to arrange or calculate the data one more time after a correction.