If the Secretary of State delegates oversight to the Board of Supervisors, ballots from the race to be recounted will be tabulated using electronic voting equipment that was used during the election, except the equipment must be reconfigured to only tabulate the race(s) to be recounted.
Regardless of which electronic voting equipment is used for the recount, the equipment must be L&A tested by the officer in charge of elections (and, in the case of a legislative, statewide, or federal office or statewide ballot measure, by the Secretary of State as well).
The recount must be conducted by running paper ballots from the applicable race through the designated electronic voting equipment. While the recount is in progress, the officer(s) in charge of elections may not publicly release vote totals from the recount.
At the conclusion of the recount, the officer(s) in charge of elections must provide the official results to the filing officer who initiated the recount. Once the filing officer has collected all the recount results, the filing officer must appear at the scheduled court hearing and provide the sealed results to the court.
The court must declare the winner in open court. The court announcement and/or order, constitute the official result for the recounted race, making it unnecessary to recanvass the race.
