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Originally Posted by HighSpeed
...given that CNN has recently published that Hillary Clinton is joining the recount it prompted a question in my mind:
Is there any legislation (or legal structure) concerning recounts of presidential elections? What if all the votes had not been obviously partially counted and a candidate just called and conceded to the other candidate does the law require all the votes to still be counted?
Ok, even in the current situation when the votes have "almost" been completely counted but not yet fully counted what are the laws concerning the initiation of a recount.
Please post any references to this if you know of it, or if you have solid knowledge in the matter if you can share. It's certainly an interesting area to have knowledge of.
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Votes are counted by the states, and each state has its own laws about counts and recounts.
In some states, a recount is automatically triggered if the winning margin is less than a specified percentage or number of votes.
It has always been my impression that states don't necessarily count every last ballot, for instance when there's been a concession or when the winning margin is greater than the number of ballots left to be counted, but a poster here who is an election official says that isn't so. So I don't know.
There might be a site somewhere that summarizes the laws of all states, but you'll have to google for yourself. Otherwise, the info you seek will be found at the Secretary of State's office for each state you are interested in.
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