Recount ordered for Cobre back-of-ballot question - Silvercity Daily Press

Recount ordered for Cobre back-of-ballot question - Silvercity Daily Press

The Cobre capital improvements tax question will undergo an automatic recount, as ordered by the New Mexico State Canvass Board. As of Election Day, the question had passed with 551 votes in favor to 547 votes against. Any race that falls within 5 percent triggers an automatic recount under state law, according to Grant County Clerk Connie Holguin. “So there’s a certain percentage it has to meet for us to do those, and that’s the 5 percent,” Hol…