Florida recount: Hand recount ordered in U.S. Senate race in Florida

[lindysalsagal]

Source: WAPO

TALLAHASSEE — The five-day sprint to run ballots in Florida through counting machines for a second time ended Thursday, with the state ordering a manual recount of results in the U.S. Senate race, where about 12,600 votes separated Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson from Republican Rick Scott, the state’s governor. No such measure was ordered in the governor’s race, where former congressman Ron DeSantis (R) held an edge over Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum (D).

Palm Beach County’s election supervisor said less than an hour before the 3 p.m. deadline that they would not finish the machine recount in any of three statewide races still in question and would move on to the manual recount at 4 p.m. The county’s results from election night will be added to the recount results from other counties.

In the governor’s race, former congressman Ron DeSantis (R) held a 0.41 percent lead over Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum at the start of the recount, outside the 0.25 percent threshold for a hand recount. Gillum said in a statement that he would not concede.

The state race for agriculture commissioner is also going to a manual recount.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/florida-recount-signatures-judge-ballot-machine-count-deadline/2018/11/15/21275a22-e87c-11e8-bbdb-72fdbf9d4fed_story.html?utm_term=.b642c9d2572f

[rzemanfl]

1. Wait. What???? Palm Beach did not machine recount the Governor race?

What manner of fuckery is this?

[obamanut2012]

2. Zero fuckery -- the PBC Election Supervisor is a true blue Dem

And was actually considered for Gillum's running mate. PBC is very, very blue.

They were not able to finish, and had been given an extension until 11/20. There is no need to finish the machine recount now.

[renate]

3. an old machine broke and a judge said that didn't count as an emergency

I wonder whether a hand recount means that the ballots that didn't get recounted because of that machine will now be counted, or whether hand recounts are only done on the ballots that were a little funky (ovals not filled in clearly etc).

[questionseverything]

5. if i understand correctly, it is only the ovr/under vote tobe hand counted

which is insane

no check on the accuracy of the machines at all

[Nitram]

7. What I heard on NPR this morning is that they will be hand-counting only those ballots that

the machines couldn't tally because of irregularities. There is a five-page manual on how to legally determine whether such a ballot clearly reveals the intention of the voter.

[Eric J in MN]

4. Florida, check out this other DU post

...if you voted by provisional or mail-in and they said your signature didn't match:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10457521

[Glimmer of Hope]

6. I can't keep track of this nonsense.