cross-check

There are no precise figures for invoice fraud within the farming community itself, but Countryfile asked Action Fraud, the national fraud reporting centre, to cross-check their most recent reports for scams involving farms and invoices.

This cross-checking was crucial not only to avoid fraudulent claims of extreme old age, but also to correct for possible errors in the records.

Certification doesn't happen until local election officials have repeatedly verified the results during the canvas and audit process — which includes everything from cross-checking ballots and tallies against voter lists to verifying signatures on mail-in ballots.

Thanks to a cross-check of registers, the researchers were able to see that the risk increases for those with a lower level of education, a foreign background, or who remain unmarried.

This is a daunting task that requires recording and cross-checking immense amounts of data.