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        January 31, 2013

Madam Speaker:

    The Government Operations Committee reports a favorable recommendation on H.B. 85, VOTING RECOUNT AMENDMENTS, by Representative C. Hall, with the following amendments:


1.    Page 2, Lines 28 through 31 :    

             28      one vote per voting precinct, the] For a race between candidates, if the difference between the
             29      number of votes cast for

{   the   }        a winning       candidate      {   who receives the highest number of votes   } in the race and

             30     
{   another   }        a losing       candidate in the race is equal to or less than .25% of the total number of votes cast for

             31      all candidates in the race, that
{   other   }        losing       candidate may file a request for a recount:


    Respectfully,

    Jack R. Draxler
    Committee Chair

Voting: 8-0-1
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