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Any voter or campaign can request a recount within five days of the election being certified, but must foot the costs, which could be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars for a Congressional race.

Those certified results go to the secretary of state, who has until Dec. 7 to certify the statewide result to the governor and presidential electors.

“We fulfilled our work, we certified the election.”

Once every valid vote has been included in the final results, and after processes such as recounts have been completed, the election results are certified - first in local jurisdictions, then at the state-wide level.

"Don't build financial life plans based on who gets elected," said Neal Van Zutphen, a certified financial planner and president and founder of Intrinsic Wealth Counsel.