Florida Senate race heads to a hand recount
By Max Greenwood - 11/15/18 05:09 PM EST
The Florida Senate race between Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) and Gov. Rick Scott (R) is heading to a hand recount after the latest round of machine tallies showed the two candidates still neck and neck.
Nelson and Scott were separated by a margin of about 0.15 percentage points, according to results of a machine recount released Thursday – a narrow enough margin to trigger a hand recount under state law.
The hand recount must be completed by Sunday, in time for a Nov. 20 deadline for state officials to certify the final election results.
A manual recount does not mean that every ballot is counted by hand. Instead, local election officials will sort through so-called overvotes and undervotes – ballots on which voters marked either more or fewer than the maximum number of selections allowed.
The race for agriculture commissioner is also heading for a hand recount after results on Thursday showed both candidates separated by just 0.06 points.
But the recount in Florida gubernatorial race showed Republican Ron DeSantis maintaining a lead over Democrat Andrew Gillum of about 0.41 points – over the threshold required for a hand recount.
Gillum isn't conceding yet. The Tallahassee mayor said on Thursday that tens of thousands of votes were not tallied in the recount, leaving the race up in the air.
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