Day 6 of Florida recount: What you need to know

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CNN By Ryan Nobles 11/15/2018

It was already shaping up to be an important day in the recount saga for Florida's US Senate, governor and agriculture commissioner races, and now a federal judge has extended a deadline to allow voters whose mail-in and provisional ballots had signature issues more time to correct them.
Here's a look at where we begin the sixth day of the recount.

Deadline day

Florida's 67 counties must officially submit their numbers from the automatic machine recount by 3 p.m. ET. Those numbers will then be certified by the secretary of state. We expect that 66 out of 67 counties will get there with time to spare (that includes Broward).

There is one county, however, that could complicate things.
Palm Beach has been a serious problem since day one. They've been plagued with issues ranging from a system that won't allow all three races to be tabulated at the same time to machines breaking down and needing fixing. As it stands now, if Palm Beach cannot be done by 3 p.m., their numbers from the initial count will stand. That is not good for incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson, who needs new tabulations in Democratic-heavy counties with the hope votes will flip in his direction.

What about that extension?

More: https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/15/politics/florida-recount-state-of-play/index.html

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The case is currently being considered by Judge Mark Walker in federal court.

Lawsuit mania

In court on Wednesday, Walker described his role in the rapidly increasing number of lawsuits related to the recount in "Star Trek" terms.
"I feel a little like Captain Kirk in the episode where the Tribbles started multiplying," the judge said.