16-661. Automatic recount; requirements;
exemption


A. A recount of the vote is required 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,
is less than or equal to the lesser of the following:


1. One-tenth of one per cent of the number of votes cast for both such candidates
or upon such measures or proposals.


2. Two hundred votes in the case of an office to be filled by state electors and
for which the total number of votes cast is more than twenty-five thousand.


3. Fifty votes in the case of an office to be filled by state electors and for
which the total number of votes cast is twenty-five thousand or less.


4. Two hundred votes in the case of an initiated or referred measure or proposal to
amend the constitution.


5. Fifty votes in the case of a member of the legislature.


6. Ten votes in the case of an office to be filled by the electors of a city or
town or a county or subdivision of a city, town or county.


B. 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.