16-661. Automatic recount; requirements; exemption

1. When the canvass of returns in a primary or general election shows that the margin between the two candidates receiving the greatest number of votes for a particular office, or between the number of votes cast for and against initiated or referred measures, or proposals to amend the Constitution of Arizona, does not exceed one-tenth of one per cent of the number of votes cast for both such candidates or upon such measures or proposals, or, in any event, does not exceed two hundred votes in the case of an office to be filled by state electors, or an initiated or referred measure or proposal to amend the constitution, does not exceed fifty votes in the case of a member of the legislature or does not exceed ten votes in the case of an office to be filled by the electors of a county or subdivision thereof, a recount of the vote upon such candidates, measures or proposals shall be required.

2. Subsection A does not apply to elections for precinct committeemen, school district governing boards, community college district governing boards, fire district boards or fire district chiefs or secretary-treasurers or boards of other special districts.

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