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      • You must consider any recount request but by law may refuse if, in your opinion, the request is unreasonable. 3 You may, however, consider offering the candidates and agents the opportunity to inspect the bundles of ballot papers as a means of reassuring them that the result is accurate.
      www.electoralcommission.org.uk/guidance-acting-returning-officers-administering-a-uk-parliamentary-election-great-britain/verification-and-count/count/provisional-results-and-recounts
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  2. Dec 19, 2023 · You must consider any recount request but by law may refuse if, in your opinion, the request is unreasonable. 3 You may, however, consider offering the candidates and agents the opportunity to inspect the bundles of ballot papers as a means of reassuring them that the result is accurate.

  3. You or your election agent can ask the LRO to recount the votes. The LRO can refuse to recount if they think the request is unreasonable. 1 Recounts can only be requested at voting area level.

  4. Dec 9, 2019 · Candidates and their agents are entitled to request recounts. A Returning Officer must consider any recount request but may by law refuse it if they deem it "unreasonable".

  5. May 5, 2020 · Long story short, it's up to the Returning Officer of the constituency, who must consider but by law may reject any request for a recount that they consider to be unreasonable. The relevant legislation is the Representation of the People Act 1983, Schedule 1, Rule 46 :

  6. Nov 7, 2020 · Under state law, campaigns can request a recount if the margin of victory is less than half of one percent of the total votes cast. The law does not specify when or how quickly the recount...

  7. Recount. 46(1) A candidate or his election agent may, if present when the counting or any recount of the votes is completed, require the returning officer to have the votes recounted or again...

  8. Dec 20, 2023 · You must consider any recount request but by law may refuse if, in your opinion, the request is unreasonable.3 You may, however, consider offering the candidates and agents the opportunity to inspect the bundles of the ballot papers as a means of reassuring them that the local total is accurate.

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