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- verb Present participle of
recanvass .
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Examples
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Election officials are recanvassing county votes before the Nov. 23 certification deadline.
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Election officials are recanvassing county votes before the Nov. 23 certification deadline.
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Thirty-five towns are set for a recanvassing today.
CT-02 2009
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As a final footnote, recanvassing shows that Bill Owens - who ran against the House health care bill, although he then voted for it as soon as he was sworn in - has lost a significant part of his margin of victory over Doug Hoffman who also ran against the House bill in NY-23.
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Thirty-five towns are set for a recanvassing today.
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The voting machines then go back to the warehouse, where the Board of Elections has 15 days to verify the vote counts by recanvassing the machines.
Recanvassing the election vote Steve Perez 2006
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The voting machines then go back to the warehouse, where the Board of Elections has 15 days to verify the vote counts by recanvassing the machines.
Archive 2006-11-01 Alex Navarro 2006
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As a result of these meetings, forensic evidence, crime scene analysis and some promising leads, we have decided to commit a considerable amount of our investigative resources to recanvassing the surrounding neighborhood and on any individuals who may have had reason to spend time in the area during the recent past.
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And that recanvassing turned up four extra votes for Vice President Gore.
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And in his public comments on Capitol Hill today, Mr. Daley trying to make the case that during the initial recanvassing, what we would consider the first recount in Florida, that in some counties they did resort to some hand counting of the votes.
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