Section 6 AAC 25.200 - Recounts(a) All recounts will be conducted in the director's office or at another site in Juneau, selected by the director. The director will, in his or her discretion, prescribe reasonable rules and procedures for the orderly conduct of recounts.(b) In the conduct of a recount, the director will open and count properly cast absentee ballots that are received after the deadlines established in AS 15.20.081(e) and (h) but before the completion of a recount.(c) A recount may be conducted using tabulators along with a hand-count verification of the recount results from one precinct per house district.(d) A recount of the ballots cast on the accessible voting device shall be conducted by hand counting the voter-verifiable paper receipt from that voting system for that polling place. If the voter-verifiable paper receipt is not (1) available, the election results reflected on the printed results report and reported election night by the election board for the affected precinct are the results for the recount for that precinct;(2) readable, the election results reflected on the printed results report and reported election night by the election board for the affected precinct are the results for the recount for that precinct; if the printed results report from the election board are not available, a duplicate receipt may be printed from the polling place memory card.(e) When conducting a recount of a general election, the director will recount each round of ranked-choice tabulation using tabulators along with a hand-count verification of the initial results from one precinct per house district. The director will issue a certificate of election to the elected candidate as determined by ranked-choice voting.(f) The state shall bear the cost of a recount when the difference between the number of votes cast for the following two candidates is 20 or less, or less than 5 percent of the total number of votes cast for the two candidates:(1) In a primary election, the candidates receiving the fourth and fifth greatest number of votes.(2) In a general election, the final two candidates or a defeated candidate and a continuing candidate in any round of tabulation.Eff. 6/23/86, Register 99; am 8/6/87, Register 103; am 8/22/2004, Register 171; am 4/25/2008, Register 186; am 10/16/2009, Register 192; am 2/24/2022, Register 241, April 2022; am 7/11/2024, Register 251, October 2024Authority:AS 15.15.010
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