0 a person who counts votes in an election or who makes certain that the counting has been done correctly
If a union fiddles the ballot a scrutineer with his wits about him, and with the aid of an up-to-date electoral roll, will know.
They alone must appoint an outside scrutineer to supervise these ballots.
Allegations were made—and strongly denied—about the role that the scrutineer himself had played in the first, invalid, election.
It shows that we even elect by secret ballot the scrutineers who conduct our ballots.
Scrutineers from political parties play an important part in the electoral process, but the role of agents has not yet been mentioned.
It was, of course, entirely proper for him to appoint one organisation to count the votes and someone else to act as scrutineer.
According to newspaper reports, not even the candidates in the election knew the scrutineer's identity.
There is one other matter that remains to be dealt with—namely, the question of scrutineers.
