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Ryan NicolNovember 16, 2018

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 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

Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher has missed the deadline to complete several machine recounts following last week’s midterm elections. The state’s deadline to submit machine recount totals was Thursday at 3 p.m. A bit confusingly, county officials are still allowed to continue the machine recount. However, the numbers determining whether a race will go […]

Scott PowersNovember 13, 2018

After Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson and his team suggested there may be good reasons to extend recount deadlines if counties need more time to sort the U.S. Senate election, Republican Gov. Rick Scott‘s team said not-so-fast. Speaking for Scott, Republican U.S. Rep. Francis Rooney insisted Tuesday that the recounts must proceed by law, a […]

Ryan NicolNovember 13, 2018

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A lawsuit filed by Democratic House District 89 candidate Jim Bonfiglio demanding an immediate recount in his race has now been transferred to federal court. Bonfiglio first filed the lawsuit Monday in the state’s 2nd Judicial Circuit, based in Tallahassee. Secretary of State Ken Detzner, the Palm Beach County canvassing board, and Palm Beach Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher were […]

Ryan NicolNovember 12, 2018

U.S. Rep. Brian Mast had harsh words for missteps by various counties’ Supervisors of Election in a call to reporters Monday afternoon, including reports that Republican-leaning Bay County accepted votes by email and fax in opposition to Florida law. Mast was speaking in defense of Gov. Rick Scott, and began by backing assertions that Scott would […]

Ryan NicolNovember 12, 2018

Jim Bonfiglio, the Democratic candidate in House District 89, on Monday filed a lawsuit demanding the extension of the vote reporting deadline in his race against Republican Mike Caruso. In sum, Bonfiglio is concerned that with all the other ongoing recounts, namely statewide offices, elections officials won’t have time to do his race. The race is one […]

Jacob OglesNovember 11, 2018

Palm Beach Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher says her office cannot complete a machine recount of three statewide resources before a Thursday deadline. “It’s impossible,” she told CNN. The statement comes the same day Republican Senate candidate Rick Scott filed a lawsuit demanding any votes counted after Saturday’s noon deadline for initial tabulation be left […]

Jacob OglesNovember 10, 2018

Gov. Rick Scott today called on sheriffs in Florida’s 67 counties to watch for elections law violations as recounts take place. “I am urging every Sheriff in the State of Florida to watch for any violations during the recount process as outlined in Florida law,” Scott said Saturday. Of course, the personal stakes of a […]

Jacob OglesNovember 10, 2018

Republican Mike Caruso maintains a narrow 124-vote lead over Democrat Jim Bonfiglio. As the bulk of post-election tabulation attention turns to Broward County, the state House District 89 race race sits in hand recount range itself. The contest reportedly dropped this morning to a margin of 37 votes before coming back to the 124-vote lead […]

Tag: Palm Beach County

Judge allows HD 89 recount to begin ahead of statewide races

Bill Nelson seeking recount of all ballots in Palm Beach County

Palm Beach County fails to meet recount deadline

Rick Scott’s team has no interest in seeing recount deadlines extended

Jim Bonfiglio recount lawsuit ‘removed’ to federal court

Brian Mast defends Rick Scott, rips Bay Co. elections supervisor

Jim Bonfiglio sues to extend vote reporting deadline, begin recount in HD 89

Susan Bucher: “Impossible” for Palm Beach to meet recount deadline

Rick Scott calls on sheriffs to watch for election law violations during recounts

Mike Caruso-Jim Bonfiglio margin remains razor-thin as recount looms