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In reply to the discussion: I'm at the Tallahassee Dems office [View all]FM123
(10,053 posts)Florida state law requires the margin of victory to be equal or less than 0.5 percent of total votes. A machine recount is used in the case but if the margin is equal or less than 0.25 percent, a manual recount is ordered. The Secretary of State's Office said a manual recount is a hand recount of overvotes and undervotes set-aside from the machine recount.
In Gillum's case, the numbers Wednesday morning showed him with 4,008,435 votes to DeSantis' 4,059,313, a margin of just over 0.6 percent. (NOTE: These numbers are being updated frequently today. We'll do our best to update them.)
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https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/07/florida-election-recount-bill-nelson-andrew-gillum-ron-desantis-rick-scott/1919097002/