2025 California Code
Elections Code - ELEC
DIVISION 16 - ELECTIONS CONTESTS
CHAPTER 7 - Court’s Duties
ARTICLE 3 - Primary Elections: Contests Involving a Recount
Section 16643.

Universal Citation:
CA Elec Code § 16643 (2025)
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16643. The proceedings before every judge in making a recount of the precincts assigned to him or her, as to the appointment of the elections official and persons necessary to be assistants of the court in making it, shall be the same as in contested elections. Section 16503 applies to the recount.

(Enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2.)

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