Scott gains votes in recount

[mystery-ak]

Rick Scott
‏Verified account @ScottforFlorida
US Senate candidate, FL

With the statewide machine recount finished, our margin of victory has increased by nearly 1000 votes. @SenBillNelson, it’s time to admit this race is over.
3:23 PM - 15 Nov 2018

[mystery-ak]

Rick Scott gains 865 votes in Florida Senate race after machine recount, Florida prepares to count again by hand
by Susan Ferrechio
 | November 15, 2018 04:30 PM



Florida’s tight Senate race was headed to a manual ballot recount Thursday after a machine tally of the state’s 8.2 million ballots showed a difference between Democrat Bill Nelson and Republican Rick Scott of less than 0.25 percent.

Scott picked up 865 votes in the machine recount, giving him a margin of 13,427 votes over Nelson, according to Scott's campaign. But that gain wasn't enough to avoid a state-mandated hand recount of all ballots.

The only way Florida might escape a hand recount is if Nelson agreed to concede the race, something he hadn't done as of late Thursday afternoon. Scott called on Nelson to concede after the machine recount that showed he gained more votes over Nelson.

“We need to put this election behind us, and it is time for Bill Nelson to respect the will of the voters and graciously bring this process to an end rather than proceed with yet another count of the votes, which will yield the same result, and bring more embarrassment to the state that we both love and have served,” Scott said in a statement Thursday following a 3 p.m. deadline for the state’s 67 counties to finish the machine recount.

But Nelson has signaled he has no plans to concede and has filed a string of lawsuits aimed at finding votes in his favor.

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/rick-scott-gains-865-votes-in-florida-senate-race-after-machine-recount-florida-prepares-to-count-again-by-hand

[RoosGirl]

Except PBC didn't finished its recount.

[Wingnut]

Except PBC didn't finished its recount.

By default Vote reverted to original number.  Scott won PBC.

[RoosGirl]

By default Vote reverted to original number.  Scott won PBC.

I didn't know that!  That's great news.  Republicans finally rewarded by incompetence.

[mystery-ak]

Not so fast Nelson filed another another lawsuit

[Frank Cannon]

By default Vote reverted to original number.  Scott won PBC.

Really? That is hysterical. All their shucking and jiving just to get the original outcome.

[Frank Cannon]

Not so fast Nelson filed another another lawsuit

So what. They don't seem to be having the effect their supposed to have.

[Wingnut]

Really? That is hysterical. All their shucking and jiving just to get the original outcome.

Look Tinky Winky, everywhere else the rats would have gained vote....this is a win.

[Wingnut]

Not so fast Nelson filed another another lawsuit

The last act of a desperate man.

[Frank Cannon]

Look Tinky Winky, everywhere else the rats would have gained vote....this is a win.

I just heard the Nelson suit is to do a manual recount of the cemeteries. Said they weren't counted in the count or recount.

[RoosGirl]

I just heard the Nelson suit is to do a manual recount of the cemeteries. Said they weren't counted in the count or recount.

Pretty sure there's precedence for them being counted. He'll probably win this one.

[Elderberry]

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/political-pulse/os-ne-florida-vote-recount-deadline-20181115-story.html

The U.S. Senate race between incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson and Gov. Rick Scott, in which Scott gained 41 votes to lead Nelson by 12,603 votes, moved to a hand recount of overvotes and undervotes, as did the even slimmer race between Democrat Nikki Fried and Republican Matt Caldwell for agriculture commissioner, in which Fried led by 5,307 votes.

Nine days after Florida’s Election Day, the deadline for machine recounts of three statewide races came and went Thursday, but Andrew Gillum refused to concede and urged vote counting to continue even as his margin behind Ron DeSantis was slimmed by just one vote.

“A vote denied is justice denied — the State of Florida must count every legally cast vote,” Gillum said in a statement as the machine recount was completed in all but a few counties. “As today’s unofficial reports and recent court proceedings make clear, there are tens of thousands of votes that have yet to be counted. We plan to do all we can to ensure that every voice is heard in this process.’’

U.S. District Judge Mark Walker, calling the state a “laughingstock,’’ refused to suspend deadlines in the races for U.S. Senate, governor and agriculture commissioner of 3 p.m. Thursday for machine recounts and noon Sunday for hand recounts.

[RoosGirl]

Look Tinky Winky, everywhere else the rats would have gained vote....this is a win.

Tinky Winky!   

[Dexter]

See, maybe not a complete sham after all. The integrity of our elections is not lost, yet.

[endicom]

See, maybe not a complete sham after all. The integrity of our elections is not lost, yet.

All eyes were on Florida so the election was not a normal one.

[RoosGirl]

See, maybe not a complete sham after all. The integrity of our elections is not lost, yet.

If there was integrity in our elections we wouldn't have had the nonsense go on that did.

[Dexter]

If there was integrity in our elections we wouldn't have had the nonsense go on that did.

I think they were just desperately hoping for a miracle in a very close election.

[RoosGirl]

I think they were just desperately hoping for a miracle in a very close election.

Sure, that's why tens of thousands of votes miraculously appeared after the initial count.