§ 2602g - Second tally - Vermont Statutes

§ 2602g. Second tally

(a) The clerk shall attach to the tally and double-check sheets a note which indicates which team members performed which functions in the first recount, and shall provide the team with a new tally sheet and an appropriate number of double-check sheets to match the number of people serving as double-check persons.

(b) The members of the team then shall switch roles, with callers and observers becoming tally persons and double-check persons, as designated by the clerk, and the team shall complete a second recount, following the procedures established for the first recount.

(c) When the results of the second recount match those of the first, a note shall be attached to the tally and double-check sheets, indicating which persons provided what functions during the second recount.

(d) Then the team shall take its tally sheets, double-check sheets, and ballots, plus a separate pile of questionable ballots, if any, to the county clerk.

(e) Team members, in the presence of the clerk observer team, shall read the totals to the county clerk who, in the view of these observers, shall record the totals on the summary sheet for that polling place.

(f) After a team has presented its pile of ballots to the clerk, it shall be assigned another pile of ballots, until all of the piles from a particular polling place have been recounted two times. (Added 1985, No. 148 (Adj. Sess.), § 5.)