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Georgia: Georgia law does not require any automatic recounts – however, a recount can be requested by either candidate if the winner's margin of victory is 0.5% or less. The request must be made ...
Requests for a recount in an election must be made by 5 p.m. on the third day following the county's canvass of the election. For counties that canvassed their results on Nov. 12, the deadline to ...
An automatic recount occurs if the margin of victory is no more than 0.5%. A recount petition must be submitted to the secretary of state by 5 p.m. on the second Thursday after the election.
Once someone has asked for a recount, the Secretary of State forwards a copy of the request to the election officials in the county where the recount is wanted.
An election recount is a repeat tabulation of votes cast in an election that is used to determine the correctness of an initial count. Recounts will often take place if the initial vote tally during an election is extremely close. Election recounts will often result in changes in contest tallies.
Candidates don't request recounts in Arizona, but the state requires an automatic recount if a race is decided by a margin within (or equal to) less than 0.5% of votes cast in a race.
State law triggers a recount when the winner’s margin is less than 0.5 percentage points unless the loser waives the action. Casey trails by just 0.46 points and did not exercise that right.
In 2006, a close general election for Auditor of Accounts prompted a recount which overturned the original count. This was one of two state results overturned anywhere in the nation from 1980 through 2006. It was the seventh recount in Vermont's history and the only one that overturned an original count. [1]