Staff ReportsAugust 29, 2022
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Staff ReportsAugust 29, 2022
Guest AuthorNovember 20, 2018
13min383
As you probably know, Florida law required a machine recount in the races for Governor, Senate and Agriculture Commissioner, because there was less than a 0.5 percent difference in the statewide vote tallies for each of those races. After the machine recount, there was a manual recount for both the Senate and Commissioner of Agriculture, […]
Jacob OglesNovember 18, 2018
13min1047
Democrat Andrew Gillum formally conceded the race for Florida Governor for a second time. Standing alongside wife, R. Jai, in a Facebook Live video and wearing an jacket for his alma mater Florida A&M University, the Tallahassee mayor formally brought to a close one of the most dramatic gubernatorial elections in state history. “This has been the […]
Ryan NicolNovember 16, 2018
4min288
U.S. District Judge Mark Walker issued an order Friday allowing the Palm Beach County canvassing board to proceed with a machine recount of House District 89 once the hand recount in the U.S. Senate race is completed. Democratic HD 89 candidate Jim Bonfiglio, who is trailing his Republican opponent, Mike Caruso, by just 37 votes, […]
Scott PowersNovember 16, 2018
3min254
Gov. Rick Scott‘s Republican U.S. Senate campaign wants Broward County’s late-transmitted machine recount results to count in Florida’s U.S. Senate race. Scott’s campaign recount attorney Tim Cerio has fired off a letter to Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner asking for confirmation that Detzner will accept the Broward County numbers even though they arrived after Thursday’s […]
Ryan NicolNovember 15, 2018
3min466
The Broward County Supervisor of Elections office reported its results of the machine recount too late on Thursday, missing the 3 p.m. deadline by two minutes. Broward officials under Supervisor Brenda Snipes actually completed the recount on time. But due to a delay uploading the results to the state’s website, the completed recount numbers were […]
Scott PowersNovember 15, 2018
3min402
Republican Gov. Rick Scott is declaring victory again after the machine recount of last week’s U.S. Senate election appears to have increase his lead, and he called again on Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson to succeed Nelson of course is doing no such thing, as his campaign has been counting all along on the next […]
Scott PowersNovember 15, 2018
5min277
Orange, Seminole, Lake, and Osceola counties’ anticipated hand recount of ballots for the Florida gubernatorial and Agriculture Commissioner races would only involve a few thousand ballots out of the nearly 1 million cast in those Central Florida counties. There were 478,122 ballots cast and machine recounted in Orange County for the Nov. 8 election but […]
Scott PowersNovember 15, 2018
2min313
The Orange County vote canvassing board has completed its machine recounts of the 2018 election with very little change in the final tabulations of contested races. Orange is the first of Florida’s seven big, urban counties — which include Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Hillsborough, Pinellas, and Duval — to report the machine-recount numbers. It’s among […]
A.G. GancarskiNovember 13, 2018
4min301
During the campaign battle against Sen. Bill Nelson, Gov. Rick Scott‘s operation routinely chided the third-term Democratic incumbent for being “confused” or otherwise detached from what’s going on. Remarkably, just two days after accusing the Nelson campaign of “fraud” on Fox News Sunday, Scott’s campaign is pivoting to a new message for Tuesday: The Senator is barely […]