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Referendum counting logistics - recounts?

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 bigbobbyking 23 Jun 2016
As I understand it this referendum is simple majority. So one vote nationally could swing it.

According to this Reuters guide http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-vote-factbox-idUSKCN0Z8232 which I assume is fairly trustworthy it will be counted in 382 local areas. "The electoral commission says the rules do not provide for a national recount under any circumstances. "

This is odd because it doesn't matter if a local area has a close result, what matters is whether overall the result is close. If the overall result is close then we should recount everywhere as a miscounted 1000 votes in a landslide area makes as much difference in a 1000 votes in a knife edge area.

Am I missing something?

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