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By Steve Contorno Yesterday
In two of Florida's largest counties — Hillsborough and Broward — the statewide machine recount yielded significantly fewer total votes than the Election Day results.

The outcome so spooked Hillsborough officials that they ultimately decided not to submit the recount totals to the state and instead deferred to the unofficial results reported Saturday. It helped that the percentage of votes won by candidates in the recount were nearly identical to the Saturday results.

Broward, it turned out, was two minutes late getting its recount totals to the Secretary of State, so the Saturday results stand there as well.

Across the other 65 counties, there were 136 fewer total votes in the governor's race recount and 836 fewer total votes in the Senate race.

What happened? It's unclear.

The final recount in Hillsborough was 846 votes fewer than the Saturday's unofficial total. Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections Craig Latimer noted that his office experienced two power outages Wednesday and lost a voting machine.
However, he couldn't immediately say whether either problem or human error contributed to the drop in votes counted.

https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2018/11/15/how-did-recounts-in-two-large-florida-counties-turn-out-fewer-votes/


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Re: How did recounts in two large Florida counties turn out fewer votes?
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2018, 09:53:30 pm »
Florida.....the only place in the world where the laws of math are routinely defied.