The method of counting votes in an automatic recount is the same method of counting used in the election that resulted in the tie vote.
Tex. Elec. Code § 216.004
COUNTING PROCEDURES
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 851, Sec. 3, eff
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