mistabulate

present singular third person mistabulates · participle present mistabulating · participle past mistabulated · past mistabulated

1. To tabulate incorrectly.

   To illustrate, should the machine operator mistabulate the amount of $534.28, and start writing in the tens of dollars column, the keys automatically lock upon attempting to write "4."

   1929, Harry Gregory Schnackel, Henry Carlton Lang, Accounting by Machine Methods, page 35

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   These pressures might lead them, in Conk's view, to deliberately mistabulate the enumerators' records, biasing the published occupation figures to show fewer women in "men's" ccupations and fewer children at work.

   1995, Susan B. Carter, Richard Sutch, Fixing the Facts: Editing of the 1880 U.S. Census of Occupations with Implications for Long-term Trends and the Sociology of Official Statistics, page 33

   Challenges may be based on allegations that elections officials or voting machines mistabulated the ballots or on charges of election fraud, which could result in a change in the result if enough ballots were invalidated.

   2022, Deborah Kalb, Elections A to Z