Bill Text: NH HB476 | 2023 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Enabling the secretary of state to conduct a second recount after an election.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-15 - Retained in Committee [HB476 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2023-HB476-Introduced.html
HB 476 - AS INTRODUCED
2023 SESSION
23-0559
08/04
HOUSE BILL 476
AN ACT enabling the secretary of state to conduct a second recount after an election.
SPONSORS: Rep. Berry, Hills. 39; Rep. Infantine, Hills. 16; Rep. Gagne, Hills. 16; Rep. Sweeney, Rock. 25
COMMITTEE: Election Law
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ANALYSIS
This bill enables the secretary of state to conduct a second recount after an election.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
23-0559
08/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three
AN ACT enabling the secretary of state to conduct a second recount after an election.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Number of Recounts; Secretary of State. Amend RSA 660:3 to read as follows:
660:3 Number of Recounts. Any candidate for whom a vote was cast for any office at a state general election, provided that the difference between the votes cast for the applying candidate and a candidate declared elected is less than 20 percent of the total votes cast in the towns which comprise the office to be recounted, shall be entitled to apply for only one recount under this chapter, and the declaration made by the secretary of state under RSA 660:6 shall be final, subject to a change in the result following an appeal to the ballot law commission, as provided in RSA 665:8, II. If more than one candidate for the same office in the same district applies for a recount under this chapter, and a recount is completed, such applications shall not result in a second recount. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the secretary of state may conduct a second recount if he or she has reason to believe a serious error occurred in the counting that would have altered the outcome of an election.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
