Perhaps more importantly, the recount also confirmed the accuracy of Utah's new touch-screen electronic voting machines that were used for the first time in a statewide election, officials said.

"It took less than an hour and the recounts of both the memory cards and the scanned ballots came out exactly the same [as the original count]," said Salt Lake County Clerk Sherrie Swensen, who oversaw the downloading of 96 memory cards and rescanning of 70 absentee ballots. "We are very pleased with the machines' performance - not one vote difference."

Swensen said the two candidates "graciously" accepted the recount.

"I anticipated it [would come out the same]," said Bird of his first recount experience. "Everything was done electronically and you can't screw that up very easily."

The state House District 42 candidates observed the recounting process and, "She congratulated me when it was over," Bird said.

Three-term incumbent Wallace said going into the recount that she had confidence in the machines and the thoroughness of election officials, "But when the vote is so very close, it is time to check it out."

The primary defeat ends Wallace's six years representing West Jordan in the House, where she is best known for unsuccessfully sponsoring a bill to end Utah's no-fault divorce law in 2005.

In the 2006 session, she successfully sponsored a bill to raise the court fees for divorce filings from $95 to $155, though not to the $500 she wanted.

Lieutenant Gov. Gary Herbert's chief of staff Joe Demma said state election officials are pleased but not surprised with the success of the first statewide use of the electronic voting machines, which were mandated by federal law after the 2000 presidential voting controversy in Florida.

"The recounts have shown 100 percent accuracy of the vote that was taken by the touch-screen machines," Demma said, pointing out that the only discrepancies so far have been in Uintah County, where a difference was found in recounting the paper ballots used for absentee voting.

"That furthers our whole message that this electronic voting procedure, mandated by Congress and carried out by the lieutenant governor, is actually accurate," he said.

A recount in Piute County will be done next week.