Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that establishes new state procedures for automatic recounts.

Highlights:

• Specifies that the act only applies to the following situations (Sec. 1). 

• A race in which one candidate is beaten by by one-half of one percent or less of the votes cast for that office;

• A tie vote;

• A ballot measure that is approved or defeated by one-half of one percent or less of the votes cast on that measure.

• Establishes a procedure for automatic recounts that involves generally accepted sampling techniques to survey the following (Sec. 2). 

• 100% of electronic ballots; 

• 5% of early voting ballots voted by mail; 

• 5% of the ballots from polling place locations established for early voting;

• 5% of the ballots from placed designated as polling locations for election day.

•  Specifies that the secretary of state must adopt rules and procedures for the implementation of this section (Sec. 2). 

• Specifies that this goes into effect on September 1st 2023 (Sec. 3). 

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