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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
undercount .
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Examples
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They have decided now to only count the so-called undercounted ballots, ballots that did not have any choice for president on them, and they will be examining those.
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They feared that if only "undercounted" ballots were examined, the results would be skewed to favor Gore.
War Of The Weary 2008
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In several of the counties on Saturday, officials were flummoxed by the prospect of isolating the "undercounted" votes, which were mixed in with the machine-counted votes.
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Among the lessons it had learned from the 1990 Census was that some groups were counted less effectively than others ( "undercounted"), including children, renters (particularly in rural areas), and racial and ethnic minorities.
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The committee worked hard to find the "undercounted" populations, like Spanish-speaking residents and Tempe's Samoan community, he said.
ASU News | The State Press | Arizona State University Kyle Daly 2010
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The task force will break up into several groups and distribute census promotional items throughout 10 areas designated as "undercounted" by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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The task force will break up into several groups and distribute census promotional items throughout 10 areas designated as "undercounted" by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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The task force will break up into several groups and distribute census promotional items throughout 10 areas designated as "undercounted" by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Start immediately, "and not just the ones in Miami-Dade and in Palm Beach, but also the undercounted -- so-called undercounted votes, the ones not counted by machines statewide.
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Marriages that did not survive are thus undercounted, and this fact artificially lowers the apparent intermarriage rate, since divorce is more likely, statistically speaking, in mixed marriages.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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