Crossword clues for scrutineer
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scrutineer \Scru`ti*neer\, n. A scrutinizer; specifically, an examiner of votes, as at an election.
Wiktionary
n. (context chiefly motor racing English) A person who scrutinises; a person responsible for #verb. vb. (context chiefly motor racing English) to scrutinise; to thoroughly check that an entered car or motorbike, etc, meets the rules.
WordNet
n. someone who examines votes at an election [syn: canvasser]
Wikipedia
In general, a scrutineer (also called poll-watcher or challenger in the United States), is a person who observes any process which requires rigorous oversight, either to prevent the occurrence of corruption or genuine mistakes. It is most commonly known as part of voting in an election, where the scrutineer observes the counting of ballot papers, in order to check that election rules are followed. There are other uses of the concept, such as in motorsport, when a scrutineer is responsible for ensuring that vehicles meet the technical regulations.
Usage examples of "scrutineer".
While these possibilities ran past his inner scrutineer a remote corner of his mind called out shrilly against the injustice of missing stays - unknown in such conditions, monstrous, a malignancy designed to make him late on his station, to allow Harte to call him unofficerlike, no seaman, a dawdling Sybarite, a slow-arse.
The table for the Scrutineers was set in front of the Chapel's high altar.
One of the three cardinals acting as Scrutineers raised his hand: the Holy Spirit may have been prepared to move these men and women, but some coordination was required.
The Scrutineers moved among the forest of stalls to make sure that each of the cardinals had a pen.
When all was in readiness, the Cardinal Deacon among the Scrutineers raised his hand again, this time to signify the moment of voting.
The Cardinal Deacon held out his hand and he and the other Scrutineers led the priest from the Chapel.
Those selected would act as scrutineers, their task to count each ballot and record the votes.
The process now would be controlled by the scrutineers until another ballot was required.
Only when the scrutineers pronounced his election with 102 votes did he focus on the altar.
He watched as one of the scrutineers carried the ballots toward the stove.
Now the scrutineers sat along them, and the last ballot boxes from the outlying areas were carried in through the front doors of the Ladyburg Church Hall.