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#Elections
#Vote_counting
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.
Errors can be found or introduced from human factors, such as transcription errors, or machine errors, such as misreads of paper ballots.
In the United States recounts rarely reverse election results.
Of the 4,687 statewide general elections held from 2000 to 2015, 27 were followed by a recount, and only three resulted in a change of outcome from the original count: 2004 Washington gubernatorial election,
2006 Vermont Auditor of Accounts election, and 2008 United States Senate election in Minnesota.
Recounting optical-scan ballots by hand in the United States Senate election in Minnesota, 2008.
Machine recount A machine recount is a retabulation of ballots cast during the election.
This can be done using an optical scan voting system, punched card system or direct-recording electronic （DRE） voting machine.
With document-based Ballot Voting Systems, ballots are counted a second time by some form of machine.
With Non-document-based Ballot Voting Systems officials will recollect vote data from each voting machine which will be combined by a central tabulation system.
Manual recount A manual or "hand" recount involves each individual physical representation of voter intent being reviewed for voter intent by one or more individuals.
With DRE voting machines, a voter-verified paper audit trail （VVPAT） is examined from each voter.
For some DREs that do not generate a VVPAT, images can be printed for each ballot cast and counted individually.
Recounts can be mandatory or optional.
In some jurisdictions, recounts are mandatory in the event the difference between the ...