The Potential Need for a Hand Recount of All Florida Ballots for the US Senate and Governor Races

[Time for change]

2. They hand recounted only undervotes and overvotes for U.S. Senate

Those votes constitute less than a half a percent of the total Florida vote. The hand recount that they did does not prove fraud in the machine counts, but it certainly suggests that possibility.

I suppose that a major reason why Nelson or Gillum did not file suits is that Florida law was not broken by the way this was handled. There is no law that requires hand recounting of all the votes -- it requires only the recounting of undervotes and overvotes if the margin of victory is less than a quarter of a percent, which was the case in the Senate race.

But it seems to me that the possibility of fraud is high, for the reasons stated in the OP and because of Florida's history. The partial hand recount that was done does not resolve this issue. A hand recount of the whole state would resolve it.