If a voting-machine malfunction changes an election result and the vote cannot be accurately recounted, the court must order a revote in the affected precinct or parish.
§1433. Revote in precincts because of malfunctions A. Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 18:1432, if a discrepancy sufficient to change the result of the election between the total votes cast at an election and the votes counted for the candidates in the election or for or against the recall of a public officer occurs as a result of the malfunction of a voting machine or results tape and results cartridge, and an accurate count of the votes cast on the malfunctioning machine or results tape and results cartridge cannot be determined by the offering of circumstantial evidence or any other evidence, the court shall order a revote in the precinct where the voting machine or results tape and results cartridge malfunctioned, which shall be limited to those persons listed on the poll list as having cast their ballots in person at the polls in the election in which the machine or results tape and results cartridge malfunctioned. B. Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 18:1432, if a discrepancy sufficient to change the result of the election between the total votes cast at an election and the votes counted for the candidates in the election or for or against the recall of a public officer occurs as a result of the malfunction of a voting machine or results tape and results cartridge used for early voting, and an accurate count of the votes cast on the malfunctioning machine or results tape and results cartridge cannot be determined by the offering of circumstantial evidence or any other evidence, the court shall order a revote of electronic early voting ballots in the parish where the voting machine or results tape and results cartridge used for early voting malfunctioned, which shall be limited to those persons who voted during early voting in the election. C. Those persons who cast their votes by paper absentee by mail or early voting ballots in that election shall not be eligible to vote in the revote election. The votes cast by paper absentee by mail or early voting ballot in the first election shall be retained, counted, and added to the voting machine totals in the revote election. Acts 1976, No. 697, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1978. Amended by Acts 1977, No. 523, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1978; Acts 2002, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 130, §1, eff. April 23, 2002; Acts 2005, No. 220, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2006; Acts 2012, No. 138, §1, eff. May 14, 2012; Acts 2019, No. 374, §1, eff. June 19, 2019.