returning-officer

At Stafford the returning-officer stamped each card before giving it to the voter, the die of the stamp having been finished only on the morning of the election.

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Under this law the voting was superintended by a bureau consisting of the deputy returning-officer (called president of the section), four unpaid assessors selected from the constituency and a secretary.

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South Australia (Electoral Act of 1858) the returning-officer put his initials on the voting-card, which the voter was directed, under pain of nullity, to fold so that the officer might not see the vote which was indicated by a cross.

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The presiding-officer at the close of the poll has to account to the returning-officer for the papers entrusted to him, the number being made up by -- (1) papers in the box, (2) spoiled papers, (3) unused papers and (4) tendered papers.

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As returning-officer, he would preside over the coming political contest.

Denzil Quarrier George Gissing 1880

When the new election was held he again presented himself as a candidate, but found that the returning-officer had received instructions to accept no votes for him, upon the ground that he was an alien.

The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion John Charles Dent 1864

At the close of the poll the returning-officer declared Mr. Clark to have been duly elected, but, as it was notorious that corrupt practices had been resorted to, a protest was entered by the friends of the Reform candidate, who himself appeared in person at the bar of the House to conduct the argument.

The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion John Charles Dent 1864

Muddy succession "I, the deputy returning-officer…"

The Economist: Daily news and views 2011

I could tell you much election news, none else; though not being thoroughly attentive to so important a subject, as to be sure one ought to be, I might now and then mistake, and give you a candidate for Durham in place of one for Southampton, or name the returning-officer instead of the candidate.

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757

These agents are also present with the returning-officer when he counts the papers and the votes, rejecting those papers -- (1) which want the official mark _on the back_; (2) on which votes are given for more candidates than the voter is entitled to vote for; (3) on which anything except the number on the back is marked or written by which the voter can be identified; (4) which are unmarked, or so marked that it is uncertain for whom the vote is given.

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