Oxford Hills NO on 1 and CasinosNO! believe they could largely staff a 30-day recount with volunteers. Referendum opponents and proponents must each have representatives involved in the recount. Although the Secretary of State’s Office has not yet officially tabulated the results of the casino referendum, unofficial results have the two sides separated by about 5,600 votes, which is 1 percent of the more than 559,000 people who voted. When the difference between yes and no votes is less than 2 percent, the recount is done at no cost to the person or group requesting it. It was unclear how much a recount would cost the state. Deputy Secretary of State Julie Flynn estimated a recount - which would be done by hand - could take 30 days to complete. Because the Secretary of State’s Office is already dealing with a number of candidate recounts and because Maine State Police will have to retrieve ballots statewide and deliver them to the recount site, a recount likely won’t be scheduled until after Thanksgiving.
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