Find out how many employees there are and how they're voting (5,5)

I believe the answer is:

count hands

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'many employees there are and how they're voting' is the definition.
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'find out' is the wordplay.
'find' becomes 'count' (counting is a kind of finding).
'out' becomes 'hands' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'count'+'hands'='COUNT HANDS'

'how' acts as a link.

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