Palm Beach misses Florida recount deadline, reports Saturday's tally
by Susan Ferrechio
| November 15, 2018 03:23 PM
At least one Florida county missed a 3 p.m. deadline to conduct a machine recount for two key statewide races.
Palm Beach County reported Saturday’s unofficial results in both races, elections supervisor Susan Bucher told reporters.
“We gave it a heroic effort,†she told the press. “We were timed out.â€
Bucher’s announcement comes after federal District Court Judge Mark Walker declined a request by Sen. Bill Nelson, the Democratic incumbent, to delay the deadline.
Nelson had been trailing Republican Gov. Rick Scott in the U.S. Senate race by about 12,500 votes.
After the state assesses the machine recount, a manual recount is likely to begin because the two candidates are expected to be less than .25 percent apart in votes.
Bucher told reporters earlier in the week the machine tabulators used to recount the ballots were overheating and producing erroneous vote totals. The machines were turned off overnight and restarted Thursday morning but could not complete the recount on time.
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