mistabulate

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ tabulate

Verb

mistabulate (third-person singular simple present mistabulates, present participle mistabulating, simple past and past participle mistabulated)

1. To tabulate incorrectly.
   • 1929, Harry Gregory Schnackel, Henry Carlton Lang, Accounting by Machine Methods, page 35:

     To illustrate, should the machine operator mistabulate the amount of $534.28, and start writing in the tens of dollars column, the keys automatically lock upon attempting to write "4."

   • 1995, Susan B. Carter, Richard Sutch, Fixing the Facts: Editing of the 1880 U.S. Census of Occupations with Implications for Long-term Trends and the Sociology of Official Statistics, page 33:

     These pressures might lead them, in Conk's view, to deliberately mistabulate the enumerators' records, biasing the published occupation figures to show fewer women in "men's" ccupations and fewer children at work.

   • 2022, Deborah Kalb, Elections A to Z:

     Challenges may be based on allegations that elections officials or voting machines mistabulated the ballots or on charges of election fraud, which could result in a change in the result if enough ballots were invalidated.