Scrutineer used in a sentence

Scrutineer in a sentence as a noun

The boxes are shown to the scrutineers who verify it to be empty, then sealed.

Each box is sealed in the presence of party scrutineers with numbered tags and signed for.

It's boring to be a scrutineer, but it's in the major party interests to ensure they are sent.

No scrutineer can prove that a ballot was counted correctly without ... seeing it counted.

You can then opt to be a scrutineer and watch that box travel to the counting area, and confirm the votes are counted correctly.

Each political party is allowed to appoint one scrutineer to watch the counting per-polling place to make sure that it is fair.

In addition every political party is entitled to send scrutineers to polling places and the count.

All of them are signed out by electoral officials, witnessed by at least two scrutineers from different candidates.

In Australia, the votes are counted by paid volunteers, but each party has scrutineers overseeing the counting.

I don't know about the UK, but in Australia it's attended by the candidates' representatives, called "scrutineers".

Candidates are highly motivated to provide scrutineers because they distrust each other.

How does that stop somebody with access to the software/machines from tampering with the vote tallies?I have worked as an election scrutineer for a political party.

The entire process is overseen by scrutineers -- individuals appointed by candidates -- so there are always multiple mutually-suspicious observers in the room.

>in Australia, it has about the best system possible [...] in terms of verifying the count: an AEC official does the counting, and the major parties volunteer scrutineers to challenge ambiguous voting slipsThat's actually how it works in Italy as well: each poll station has an official "commission" and party-nominated "observers" who can challenge slip by slip.