Word: miscount
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...last week's Princeton-Yale upset, the Crimson women harriers travelled to Van Cortland Park, N.Y., Friday all set to take home the Ivy Championship crown. For one sweet hour they thought they had it, too, until a miscount was discovered and Princeton emerged the victor by a single point...
...represented an increase of 1000--a staggering 13 per cent--over last year's total. Last year's 5700 applications were a 12 per cent increase over the year before. It was only when Admissions Committee meetings began that the staff discovered the total to be 6700, since a miscount had originally placed...
There is no suggestion that either fraud or deceit was the cause of the improper procedure and the subsequent miscount. Still, the cavalier attitude of the last Student Government toward their own rules led to the same result...
...fall. They had discovered plenty of evidence of fraud at the polls, demanded that the Justice Department look into it. While Attorney General Tom Clark dawdled, a Jackson County grand jury opened the ballot boxes from 34 out of 255 precincts, found a "deliberate, calculated and premeditated plan" to miscount, steal and buy votes. Said the jury, which had already indicted 71: "It is our belief that Roger C. Slaughter was deprived of the nomination by a fraudulent miscount of votes and other types of fraud...
...Miscount...