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Guest AuthorNovember 20, 2018

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

With a manual recount complete, Republican Elizabeth Fetterhoff maintained her narrow edge over Democrat Patrick Henry is Florida House District 26. Volusia County elections officials report the manual recount concluded, and Fetterhoff ultimately received 30,610 votes to the Democratic incumbent’s 30,549, an 61-vote lead, or 0.1 percent of votes cast. The count remains close enough […]

Scott PowersNovember 16, 2018

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 […]

Scott PowersNovember 15, 2018

Arguing that Palm Beach County’s problems with machines breaking down during the machine recount this week, Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson‘s campaign has sued in state court seeking to force a recount of all half-million ballots there. Palm Beach County is not the main hope for Nelson’s campaign as the state moves to the ordered […]

Ryan NicolNovember 15, 2018

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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

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 […]

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Elizabeth Fetterhoff clings to 61-vote lead after hand recount

Rick Scott’s team wants Broward County recount results to count

Bill Nelson seeking recount of all ballots in Palm Beach County

Broward County misses recount deadline by 2 minutes

Hand recounts only would involve a few thousand ballots in Central Florida