How to Use counting room in a Sentence

counting room

noun
  • At that time, election workers will be sequestered inside the counting room and must remain there until polls close at 8 p.m.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 8 Nov. 2022
  • This includes the vote-counting room and the large, locked cage where the ballots are stored.
    Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The trouble broke out inside the main counting room in Detroit late on the morning of Nov. 4.
    Nick Corasaniti, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2020
  • The plaintiffs allege the water leak did not occur in the vote-counting room.
    Jonathan Garber, Fox News, 27 Nov. 2020
  • Police inside the ballot counting room held the crowd back, and guards blocked the entrance.
    Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Yes, the cash counting room operated by the cartel has a lot of bills on hand.
    David Segal, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2020
  • An election official can't upload the results to the web from the counting room.
    Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The group stormed the counting room in a crashing human wave of clenched fists, pleated khakis and button-down shirt collars.
    Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Other posts claimed that votes were smuggled into the counting room in boxes and on a wagon.
    Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Elgan said a printer will be installed in the counting room for the general election.
    CBS News, 24 June 2022
  • Ballot stuffing by Dems when Republicans were forced to leave the large counting room.
    Chuck Todd, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Kallman said that those demands were made only by people outside the TCF counting room.
    Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Chris Thomas, Michigan’s former director of elections who was working at the Detroit counting room, cast doubt on Karamo’s account.
    Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 6 May 2022
  • For instance, during the 2020 presidential election in Detroit, ballots arrived to the counting room early in the morning the day after the election to be counted.
    Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The city’s Democratic registrar of voters was penalized last month for calling the police to remove members of the public from a ballot counting room during an election last spring.
    Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 11 July 2019
  • On the day before the election, when Detroit election workers began processing absentee ballots, two election challengers were escorted out of the counting room by the police.
    Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 11 Nov. 2020
  • The average tuition and fees (not counting room and board) was $4,975 a semester at the main campuses for state universities this past school year, according to the Department of Higher Education.
    Rich Exner, cleveland, 2 July 2020
  • Several states with no-reason absentee or all-mail elections allow absentee voters to see not only that their ballot was received but taken into the counting room – and therefore counted – as well.
    Mikhayla Dunaj, Detroit Free Press, 26 Dec. 2020
  • The central counting room remains under bipartisan observation throughout the night, and state law requires every facility to conduct live webcasts.
    Dallas News, 20 Oct. 2022

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