SB0053 Summary

• Removes provisions that prevent recounts in precincts with broken seals, mismatched ballot counts, or broken voting device seals, allowing all precincts to be recounted regardless of these conditions.

• Requires boards of canvassers to recount all ballots using electronic voting systems and eliminates the previous "not recountable" determination process under Section 871.

• Provides flexibility in recount methods, allowing manual tallies, computer tabulation with specialized software, or the same software used on election day, with required software testing before use.

• Simplifies ballot counting procedures in Section 874 by removing the multi-count matching requirement and allowing recounts to proceed once ballots are verified against poll lists.

• Makes parallel changes to both county-level recount procedures (Sections 867, 871, 874) and state-level recount procedures (Section 881) to ensure consistent standards statewide.