Gillum crossed the line for an automatic recount.

[Baitball Blogger]

As of 2:26 PM. Gillium went below the .5 number that goes into automatic recount.

49.62 - 49.15 = .47

https://floridaelectionwatch.gov/StateOffices/Governor

[jcgoldie]

1. yep

.62 - .15 = .47 Subtraction... Addition's tricky friend...

[Baitball Blogger]

3. .47, Which means he is in recount country.

Don't trust myself when it comes to math.

[jcgoldie]

7. Don't feel bad...

I edited my damn post like 5 times before I realized you couldn't put an = symbol in the subject line.

[Baitball Blogger]

11. Me too!

I was so nervous that I kept typing numbers down, reversing the order!!

[Sunsky]

2. Yup

Seems clear to me.

[triron]

4. Diff0.47

[zipplewrath]

5. By .03

Are they done counting yet?

[Baitball Blogger]

6. If I were on the ground in those counties, I would keep on going.

[lark]

10. We are!

Democrats are mobilizing today from all over FL to get all the mailed in ballots counted and provisional ballots cured so they count. I'm part of it here in Duval County and know that Broward and Hialeah are also very active today doing the same thing,

[Baitball Blogger]

12. Thank you so much!

Wish we had a group in Central Florida that I belonged to that would be on the ready for these events.

[lark]

23. Oh, the Democratic party in FL was totally not ready for this!

They've never done this kind of recount support before, at least definitely not in my county. It's a madhouse, took 2 hours to get the lists to start calling, but we are on it now and also sending people with notaries out to folks houses to get the affadavits signed, notarized & emailed to SOE before 5pm today. Well, break time is over, back to the phones....

[Baitball Blogger]

24. Thank you so much for your effort.

[Faux pas]

8. Kickin' with gusto!

[libdem4life]

9. Talk about a nail biter ! n/t

[Roland99]

13. Not holding my breath but woo hoo!!

and this has to bode well for Nelson who was much closer to pRick Scott than Gillum was to DeRacist!

[Roland99]

15. Yeah....Nelson now within 17,000 votes!

Cut the gap in half so far!!

[StevieM]

25. The difference between Nelson and Scott is now 0.2124%. That's low enough to mandate a hand recount.

And that is what we need in order to get a fair vote count.

[mr_lebowski]

14. Technically, the proper math is this ...

(4069451-4030936)/(4069451+4030936) * 100%

Which is a .4755% difference

[Baitball Blogger]

17. See, my answer on the SAT would have been, "All of the Above"

or "C"

[NastyRiffraff]

27. I'm getting a headache n/t

[INdemo]

31. Does anyone remember Al Franken and his recount insistance

against Coleman when he first ran for the Senate..He eventually won but it took persistence and he would not give up.

[FakeNoose]

42. Yes but a lot of the delay was caused by his opponent

Norm Coleman dragged it out another 3 or 4 months, then he finally conceded.

[INdemo]

44. That is the way Fascists Republican operate. and Scott will be no different

It may be January before we know. I'm reading now that there are votes missing. The county where Parkland School is located did note vote ???

[FloridaBlues]

16. Dems in every county at their local SOE office!! I sure hope

We can flip Gov, Sen and Agricultural commissioner who is also in a tight race .

[Baitball Blogger]

20. I had my suspicions about that Agricultural commissioner position when

I saw a huge sign for Matt Cantwell (sp?) infront of the DUDA headquarters.

[FloridaBlues]

40. Yes her race is the closest of all the races.

[Kaleva]

18. Yea! An OP with a link!

Lots of uncounted votes in heavy Dem areas.

"Broward election officials said to expect their first unofficial results by 1 p.m. Friday."

https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/11/08/election-results-recount-florida-governor-race-andrew-gillum-ron-desantis/1929796002/

[Baitball Blogger]

21. .

[AlexSFCA]

19. yay! gotta count every provisional ballot

with the way things are, provisional ballots are much more likely to be democratic votes

[flamingdem]

22. Woo hoo!

[BootinUp]

26. FLORIDAAAAA!!!!

[Gothmog]

28. Unleash the lawyers

Link to tweet

[knightmaar]

29. There's some kind of singularity in Florida

Some weird abrogation of the normal laws of the universe that makes "counting" really hard there.

[SunSeeker]

32. Nothing singular about racist voter suppression; GOP does it everywhere they're in charge. nt

[knightmaar]

33. Even with all of that, though, it just seems like it's really difficult to do the actual counting

Like, once they've suppressed all the people they don't like, it still shouldn't take more than a few hours to count all the votes of the people they do like.

Is there, like, one guy per county? Or what?

[SunSeeker]

34. The GOP cheats blocked mismatched signature mail in ballots.

Lots of them. Those all need to be reviewed one by one and allow the voter to confirm it was indeed them signing their ballot (which it invariably was).

[kirby]

30. So?

What does that mean, hitting a refresh button on a spreadsheet to see / certify the same batch of numbers? While elsewhere a box of suppressed or ignored ballots or discarded electronic touchscreen presses still aren't part of what is being looked at? Pardon my lack of faith in Florida.

[Baitball Blogger]

35. We have courageous Dem volunteers going through the provisional ballots

and rejected mail-in ballots and calling the respective voters to get their notarized signatures in order to validate their votes.

Wouldn't you know it? There are more in Democratic counties than in Red ones.

[ZeroSomeBrains]

36. General question

Would there be a 2nd election if neither candidate gets to 50%? I know there will be a 2nd election in Mississippi but I thought I heard you would need 50% of the vote for governor to win on the 1st round in Florida.

[Baitball Blogger]

37. That's for Georgia.

You just need to get more votes than you're opponent in Florida. In Georgia Stacy Abrams is just hoping to get Kemp's votes below 50%, and then there will be a run-off election,.

[ZeroSomeBrains]

38. Thank you

That's where I must've gotten confused.

[BewilderedCitizen]

39. Nothing like waiting until the last minute (for notification)

I just received a text message and an email, stating that if I voted with a provisional ballot I need to contact the Supervisor of Elections before 5PM.

I didn't vote with a provisional ballot, but for the many that did, I hope they'll be able to respond in time.

[iluvtennis]

41. Yay!!!!

[SergeStorms]

43. In the cesspool that is Florida politics....

that's a GOOD thing!

[Gothmog]

45. From Marc Elias

Link to tweet

[Baitball Blogger]

46. LOL!

[Gothmog]

47. From Marc Elias

Link to tweet

[Gothmog]

48. Pro tip: when you are attacking the otherside's lawyers, you are losing

Link to tweet