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Electoral Act 1993

Elections - Recount

182: Ability to combine recounts

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"You can have one recount for both electorate and party votes, instead of two separate ones."

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If you ask for a recount of votes, you might want to look at the electorate votes or the party votes. You do not need to have separate recounts for these votes. If more than one person asks for a recount of the same votes, the District Court Judge can combine these requests into one recount. This means the Judge can look at the electorate votes and the party votes at the same time, instead of doing separate recounts. The Judge is allowed to do this under section 180 and section 181 of the Electoral Act.

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182Ability to combine recounts

  1. Nothing in section 180 or section 181 requires the electorate votes or the party votes to be the subject of more than 1 recount and, where more than 1 application is received that would involve recounts of the same votes or of both parts of the same ballot papers, those applications may be combined by the District Court Judge conducting the recount.

Notes
  • Section 182: substituted, on , by section 60 of the Electoral Amendment Act (No 2) 1995 (1995 No 61).