scrutineers

Each candidate will nominate scrutineers to ensure the count is valid.

There are 'scrutineers', as well as the election officials: they are representatives of the various parties, monitoring the count.

The culture of everyone from The Scrutineers to the burger vans is well worth looking into, if you can.

They left inside the booth the one they didn't like and gave the other one back to the scrutineers.

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

In Australia, they're counted by an government official, and overseen by mutually hostile volunteers (scrutineers) supplied from the major parties.

Ask the candidates if they would be happy if paper ballots were counted without scrutineers.

We do have scrutineers as part of the process and ballot security is pretty paramount.

Further releases of video will be doubted by a wide range of people, from calm but cautious scrutineers to rabid conspiracy theorists.

These could be counted and checked by scrutineers as the current electoral process works.

Or with scrutineers from only one party, who have quietly replaced electoral officials.

HQ has more scrutineers from all parties checking both postal votes and recounts.

"Informal" votes -- ballots where the voter does not correctly fill out the ballot paper -- are rejected from the tally by the counters under supervision from scrutineers.

>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 slips That'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.

Scrutineers are appointed by both parties, but also from members of the public.