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Florida Vote Recount Ordered In Races For Senate, Governor, Ag Commissioner
November 10, 2018
After the drama of election night and fierce battles about counting votes, Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner on Saturday ordered recounts in high-stakes races for U.S. Senate, governor and agriculture commissioner.
The orders, along with recounts slated in three legislative districts, were no surprise: State law requires “machine” recounts when the margins between candidates are 0.5 percent or less. As local officials continued to count ballots after Tuesday’s election, it became clear that all six of the races would fall under that requirement.
The machine recounts will play out over five days, with county canvassing boards required to report results by 3 p.m. Thursday. At that point, races with margins of .25 percent or less will go to manual, or “hand,” recounts.
The Escambia County Canvassing Board will meet at noon Sunday to conduct the recount. If more time is needed, the canvassing board will meet daily Monday through Thursday at 9 a.m. until the recount is complete. All meetings are open to the public. The Escambia County Canvassing Board meets at the Supervisor of Elections office located on the second floor at 213 Palafox Place.
Counties were required by noon Saturday to report unofficial results to the state. The races set for recounts are:
— The U.S. Senate race between Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson and Republican Gov. Rick Scott. In the unofficial results, Scott had 4,098,107 votes, or 50.07 percent, while Nelson had 4,085,545 votes, or 49.92 percent.
— The governor’s race between Republican Ron DeSantis and Democrat Andrew Gillum. In the unofficial results, DeSantis had 4,075,879 votes, or 49.59 percent, while Gillum had 4,042,195 votes, or 49.18 percent.
— The race for agriculture commissioner between Democrat Nikki Fried and Republican Matt Caldwell. In the unofficial results, Fried had 4,030,337 votes, or 50.03 percent, while Caldwell had 4,025,011 votes, or 49.97 percent.
In addition, recounts in Senate and House races will be conducted in Hillsborough, Volusia and Palm Beach counties.
In a machine recount, all ballots are fed through voting machines. Ballots with “undervotes” or “overvotes” — in which voters may have skipped races or made extra marks in races, causing their ballots to be rejected by the machines — are set aside, or “outstacked.”
In races that go to manual recounts after the Thursday deadline, county canvassing boards will examine the “outstacked” ballots.
The results from the manual recounts must be provided to the state no later than noon on Nov. 18. Two days later, the state Elections Canvassing Commission, comprised of Scott and two members of the Florida Cabinet, will meet in Tallahassee to certify the official election results.
by The News Service of Florida with local contribution from NorthEscambia.com
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18 Responses to “Florida Vote Recount Ordered In Races For Senate, Governor, Ag Commissioner”
@Patsy Green
If you leave a contest ( or candidates ) with No choice marked….the rest
of your Marked contests ARE counted. FYI
The undervotes and overvotes for the specific race being recounted are set aside, and then manually tabulated if the result is closer than 0.25% after the machine recount. Those ballots are still counted in the original election results, as well as in any other race recounts where there was no undervote or overvote.
I didn’t vote in the Soil and Conservation races because I could not in good conscience vote when I had no knowledge of the candidates. I’m surprised to learn that means my votes didn’t get counted. That’s not right. Fix that glitch, or do a better job of letting people know about it before the election.
@Henry Coe; Your lame excuse for the ineptness in these counties doesn’t hold up. I’ll equate this to wal mart. Escambia County would be running one check out line. Palm Beach would be running a dozen or more. At the end, we all should be able to check out in the same amount of time, and wal mart would know how much money (votes) to count at the end of the day. In 2016, Snipes went as far as destroying all the ballots so that they could not be examined. This woman should have been removed from office long ago, and for sure should be now.
Nelson and (dont monkey this up) Gillum actually objected to an illegal immigrants vote to be discarded. That alone says enough for me @Kate. Reading your comments, I’m surprised you choose to live here. I picture you living down south, NYC, SanFrancisco, Portland, or some other liberal cesspool city.
I’m concerned about fraud. I’m specifically concerned about votes that weren’t counted because they weren’t in on time but now considered. Like John Adam’s said, “If your not a liberal when your young you have no heart. If not a conservative when your older you have no brain.”.
How can they recount Palm Beach and Broward counties when they haven’t posted the results that were legally due on election night? This happens in these two counties election after election, and nothing has been done to correct the problems. People are willing to attribute all this mess to ineptness on the part of Snipes, but I don’t believe all these mistakes could be by accident. Snipes and her office should be investigated, and people should go to jail. The citizens of these counties could not vote these two out of office because they control the keys to the ballot boxes.
The governor has the power to remove a county supervisor of elections in Florida. This is how Brenda Snipes came into the Broward Co. job to begin with. Scott has been in office for 8 yrs,; Brenda Snipes has been in office since 2003. Why, if she is such a continuing problem, did Scott not remove her?
So dangerous – prime example is Marcus Gillum who voted for his brother in 2016 even though he had sworn in an affidavit he was a resident of Chicago and did not possess a Florida Drivers License since 2011. You apparently do not know you cannot legally vote in 2 States. True, nobody cared about this fact until his brother ran for Governor. I am not a Republican, but I believe in honesty and integrity and it lacks on every level by both candidates and our voting system itself.
@ just a dude….splain to me about Scott’s corruption. A lot of people are awaiting your input.
Facts first. Where’s the proof that someone voted that wasn’t suppose to?
Great explanation of the process! Thank you!
Anuther Old sayin: “The further south you go
( in Fla.) the further north you are”. And I’d say
If our Election supervisors ( up here) were as incompetent and
Maybe corrupt as the bunch around Miami they’d be asked
to leave !
You folks are so funny, if a republican ties or loses then the Democrats cheated somehow. The so called box of ballots was a box of spare equipment pieces in the case something wasn’t working but you need to feel cheated and and robbed. So go ahead do a pity party. Blame everyone else for your misery even as fake as it is.
So we are going to do a recount in Palm Beach and Broward County? Can we actually trust the vote down there with everything that is being reported? Caldwell is will be the biggest loser in this, he went from a good bit ahead to behind with all of those convenient Dem votes.
There is a reason why voting problems occur in Broward County more so than other Florida counties. Broward has almost 2 Million Residents and almost 600 voting precincts. Those precincts are broken up into districts.
Btw, funding was requested to improve the voting structure for Broward County and Florida Republican voted it down so there are reason we have problems that have nothing to do with Broward’s SOE.
How ever the elections turnout, every residents legal vote needs to count. There is no fraud, it’s just a few close races.
Not me. The last thing we need is more corruption from Scott
We are the laughing stock of the world! First of all, nobody cares how many ballots are turned in by people NOT ELIGIBLE to vote in the first place. But we harp on and on about FOREIGN interference in any of our elections! Now the computers supposedly don’t tabulate correctly since it can;t be human corruption since representatives of both parties stand next to the machines as each voter slips in their completed ballot.
I hope we mysteriously find boxes of republican ballots up here like they are finding democratic ballots down south!