California Elections Code

§ 15645

ELEC § 15645 Effective Jan 1, 2016Div. 15 · Ch. 9 · Art. 5

Statute text

(a)(1) Within five days after the Secretary of State files a statement of the vote, as required by subdivision (b) of Section 15501, the Governor may order a state-funded manual recount of all votes cast for a statewide office or state ballot measure if any of the following occurs, except as provided in paragraph (3):

(A)The official canvass of returns in a statewide primary election shows that the difference in the number of votes received by the second and third place candidates for a statewide office is less than or equal to the lesser of 1,000 votes or 0.00015 of the number of all votes cast for that office except as provided in paragraph (2).

(B)The official canvass of returns in a statewide general election shows that the difference in the number of votes received by the two candidates receiving the greatest number of votes for a statewide office is less than or equal to the lesser of 1,000 votes or 0.00015 of the number of all votes cast for that office.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 723, Sec. 8. (AB 44) Effective January 1, 2016.