北卡罗来纳州国会第 5 选区哈伯德以 337 票领先现任福克斯：全区已投近 28.7 万票、差距 0.12%，机器重计与抽样人工重计程序 11 月 13 日获说明
北卡罗来纳州各县选举委员会 11 月 13 日上午举行核票，州选举委员会随后将认证大多数选举结果为正式结果，但部分选举可能走向重计，其中包括国会第 5 选区选举，民主党挑战者查克·哈伯德以仅 337 票领先现任共和党众议员弗吉尼亚·福克斯，全区共投出近 28.7 万张选票。
按州法，非全州选举项目中票差不超过总票数 1% 时落败候选人可要求重计，哈伯德与福克斯的差距为 0.12%，远在门槛之内，福克斯竞选团队须在核票后两个工作日内向州选举委员会提出要求。
州选举委员会将通知各县选举委员会，县方须在收到通知后三天内对全部选票进行机器重新计票，重计向公众开放，县选举委员会须至少提前 48 小时发布重计公告，每台计票机由两党双人团队或受双人团队监督的受训人员操作，县选举委员会须在重计开始后五天内完成，重新计票结果即为新的正式计数。
在机器重计中落败的一方，可在重计完成后 24 小时内要求在抽样选区进行人工逐张复核，抽样为辖区内每个县现场投票点的 3%、向上取整。
若抽样复核显示按比例推算选举结果可能翻转，选区各县须进行全面人工逐张复核，若人工复核与机器重计结果不一致，以人工复核结果为正式结果，但选票在人工复核中遗失或损毁等有限情形除外。
North Carolina Fifth Congressional District Challenger Hubbard Leads Incumbent Foxx by 337 Votes of Nearly 287,000 Cast, a 0.12 Percent Margin, as the Machine and Sample Hand-Eye Recount Steps Are Explained on November 13
County boards of election in North Carolina conducted canvasses on the morning of November 13, which will lead to the State Board of Elections certifying most election results as official, but some races could be heading to recounts, including the Fifth Congressional District race in which Democratic challenger Chuck Hubbard leads incumbent Republican Virginia Foxx by a mere 337 votes out of nearly 287,000 ballots cast.
Under state law, a losing candidate may demand a recount if the gap is not more than one percent for nonstatewide races, the gap in the Hubbard and Foxx race is 0.12 percent, well within the cutoff, and the Foxx campaign must file the demand with the State Board within two business days of the canvass.
The State Board will notify the county boards, which must conduct machine retabulations of all ballots within three days of receiving the notice, the recount is public with at least 48 hours public notice before it begins, each tabulator is attended by two-person bipartisan teams or by trained staff supervised by bipartisan teams, and the county board has five days from the start of the recount to complete it, with the retabulation results becoming the new official count.
Whichever candidate loses the machine recount may demand a second recount on a hand-to-eye basis in a sample of precincts within 24 hours of the completion of that recount, with each county hand-counting all ballots cast in 3 percent of in-person voting sites in each county in the jurisdiction, rounded up.
If the sample recount suggests the result could be reversed if extrapolated across the entire tabulation, the counties in the district must conduct a full hand-to-eye recount of all ballots, and if there is a discrepancy between the machine recount and the full hand-to-eye recount, the hand-to-eye results are considered official, except under limited circumstances such as ballots being lost or destroyed during the hand-to-eye recount.
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图片来源：图：北卡罗来纳州首府罗利市天际线（资料图），国会第5选区重计程序由州选举委员会说明。James Willamor 摄，CC BY-SA 3.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Skyline of Raleigh, the North Carolina capital (file photo); the Congressional District 5 recount process was explained by the State Board of Elections. By James Willamor, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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