Definition of "overcount" [o•ver•count]

• To count more of something than are actually present, or to count one thing disproportionately more than another (verb)

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• "Or was it due to an "overcount" of pigs in the December"
• "Mr. Meyer notes that the measures also tend to overstate inflation and overcount the elderly."
• "The Gore side gingerly focused on the undercounts, whereas, if memory serves, the overcount ballots would have given them Florida and the White House."