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returning officer  noun(In the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand) the official in each constituency or electorate who conducts an election and announces the result.Mr Allen criticised the fact that returning officers were left to explain differences between the number of votes tallied by voting machines and the returning officers in e-voting trial constituencies in 2002....- Some returning officers who oversee elections have privately bought premises to store the machines.
- One Yorkshire election officer said: ‘Acting returning officers are already dealing with tens of thousands of postal votes in a very small time window.’
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