FL recount update. Nelson down 12,600. Gillum down 33,700

[Roland99]

Machine recounts being called for by officials

Should be a hand recount for Senate. Diff is only 0.15%. Hand recount can be done if less than 0.25%


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/recount-to-begin-in-florida-senate-and-governors-races-in-echo-of-2000-presidential-election/2018/11/10/1241d726-e502-11e8-a1c9-6afe99dddd92_story.html?utm_term=.5e8b0d698185

Three statewide contests in Florida — including the closely watched Senate race — headed for history-making recounts, election officials confirmed Saturday, with the lead by Gov. Rick Scott (R) over Sen. Bill Nelson (D) in the marquee contest shrinking to 12,562 votes out of nearly 8.2 million cast.

The .15 percent margin is narrow enough to not only trigger a machine recount, which by law must be completed by Thursday, but is likely to result in a recount by hand across the state — a complicated logistical task in the nation’s biggest battleground state.

The new tally in the governor’s race was not quite as close, but also met the threshold for a voting machine recount. Numbers posted on the state election website showed Republican Ron DeSantis leading Democrat Andrew Gillum by 33,684 votes.

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...the claims of fraud by the president and the governor were undercut Saturday by the Florida Department of State, which said in a statement it found “no evidence of criminal activity at this time.”

[SunSeeker]

1. Never give up!

[mitch96]

2. " Hand recount "

I can just imagine a hand recount in Florida.. A Rethug lawyer looking over your right shoulder, a Dem lawyer looking over your left for every ballot recount..
And there will STILL be discrepancies...
Is there a fool proof way of doing an election vote?
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[brush]

3. Paper ballots are the best way. It was that way before hackable, no paper...

trail machines built by repug corporations came along.

[FloridaBlues]

7. We do have paper ballots.

[brush]

11. You mean the ones in the voting machines that are the machine that you never touch?

That's what we have here in NV. You have to trust that your votes aren't switched.

[obamanut2012]

5. We had paper ballots in Palm Beach County

As did Broward. Mine was two pages, front and back, and I filled them in with a pencil, then fed them into a machine. Very much like the GRE or LSAT. Handcounting is going to happen in the Senate race, and it will be insane! MILLIONS of votes.

[poesvoice]

9. I know I have few posts and mainly lurk here

but from what the news reports here in FL the hand recount is restricted to the Under/over votes only and will only happen if the number of over/under votes is great enough to change the outcome, regardless of whether it is under .25%. That said I have been watching this closely and the numbers of over/under votes I hear bandied about is around 11k with 9800 being in Broward. If we lose the signature mismatch case Wednesday I hold little hope of having my favorite Senator Nelson back. I don't hear anyone giving Gillum a path to victory either way because the over/under votes for governor are far fewer. I heard around 2000 but they are from red and blue counties. BTW the signature mismatches were only 3,504 back on 11/3 (the only number I can find) and at least some of those will be R votes. I am still holding out hope cause we NEED Gillum and Nelson but I am not deluding myself either.

[marble falls]

15. What are you afraid of? We're probably going to win where they did everything short of murder ...

to lock themselves in.

[malaise]

4. I know it's not in his DNA but Nelson needs to make more noise

He's the incumbent.

[obamanut2012]

6. His attorneys have been in this since election night

He is an old fox, and knows exactly what he doing. Scott looks like an even bigger fool than usual.

[FloridaBlues]

8. Have to agree with you Scott is a fool.

[Awsi Dooger]

10. Scott looks like his true self in situations like this

Whining liar

Sickening that he was allowed to raise his approval rating far above deserved, due to camping out at the Florida tragedies with a microphone and his NAVY hat.

I guarantee he views his dwindling lead as more of a tragedy than any of those areas he camped out at

[Eliot Rosewater]

12. Every single close election if the GOP wins, they have stolen it.

Think about the massive election fraud operations they have going on all the time.

It is god damn fucking ridiculous, sick of it.

[Takket]

13. not to nit pick but this is the initial count, there hasn't been a recount yet

matter because the GOP is throwing a livid fit over the votes just being counted ONCE. we haven't even gotten to the recount yet.

[Roland99]

14. True. But the article goes to the latest news on the recount

[Gothmog]

16. Gillum may lose due to progressives who voted for indie candidate

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