the countdown is on election offices
across the state have until 3 p.m. on
Thursday to report their first set of
recounted ballots officials in Broward
and Palm Beach counties the focal point
of this election have started this
daunting task razor thin margins of
spark machine recounts in three big
races those Florida races still without
winners Governor US Senate Agriculture
Commissioner those races were forced
into a recount because I've met the one
half of one percent threshold as of
yesterday afternoon Republican candidate
Ron de santis had a slight lead over his
rival in the Democratic Party
Andrew Gilliam only 30 3684 votes
separate them that's a margin of 0.41%
in the Senate race Republican Rick Scott
was a head of Democratic incumbent bill
Nelson by 12,500 62 votes and even
slimmer margin only 0.15 percent and in
the race for Florida Agriculture
Commissioner Democrat Nicki freed was
leading a Republican Matt Caldwell he
even narrow mur narrower margin five
thousand three twenty six point zero six
percentage points so today Governor Rick
Scott filed three more lawsuits against
the election supervisors in Broward and
Palm Beach counties the Scott campaign
accused them of quote continued antics
failures and willful disregard of the
law when asked if they would be able to
finish the recount on time get this
Palm Beach County Supervisor of
Elections Susan Bucher responded quote
saying it's impossible reporter Madeline
Wright has the latest on the recount
from South Florida
the recount process got off to a late
start Sunday morning at Broward election
headquarters in Lauderhill a glitch with
one of the ten vote counting machines
delayed the process for hours eventually
staff resolved the problem and started
recounting the hundreds of thousands of
votes cast staff members say sorting the
ballots might take one to two days the
actual counting will begin after that
lawyers for the Republican and
Democratic parties asked the canvassing
board for permission to observe the
recount in the tabulation room the board
initially objected telling them they
prefer that they watch through a glass
window but eventually each side was
allowed to bring several representatives
into the room meanwhile outside election
headquarters supporters of Republican
candidates Rick Scott and Ron de santis
gathered for the third day in a row to
protest the recount many of them
suspicious of the process some making
unfounded accusations of election fraud
those who support the recount gathered
in huge numbers Sunday evening at new
Mount Olive Baptist Church in Fort
Lauderdale many of them backed Democrats
Bill Nelson and Andrew Gilliam every
vote should count every vote should
count regardless in an unusual move
Attorney General Pam Bondi publicly
criticized Florida Department of Law
Enforcement commissioner
Rick's swearing in for not pursue any
investigation into alleged
irregularities in Broward and Palm Beach
counties we are continuing to follow
this ballot recount issue news for Jax
reporter Vicki Michael uchi is on his
way to South Florida look for his live
report starting at 8 o'clock tomorrow
morning on the morning show and here in
Duval County the canvassing board
started the process at 9:00 this morning
election supervisor Mike Hogan expects
the process to take about 17 hours to
count more than three hundred eighty one
thousand ballots Nassau County also
started recounting this morning
canvassing boards in other counties are
set to meet this week tomorrow st.
John's and Baker will start recounting
on Tuesday Putnam County will start then
on Wednesday Clay County will take part
in the recount process now to Georgia
where all eyes are on the governor's
race Stacy
Abraham's Democratic campaign has filed
a federal lawsuit asking a judge to
delay votes excuse me to delay vote
certifications in Georgia to make
official counts any vote to make sure
they're all officially counted and not
wrongly rejected so Republican Brian
Kemp continues to push for her to
concede saying it is mathematically
impossible for Abrams to even force a
runoff a major focal point is
provisional ballots a spokeswoman for
the Secretary of State's office said
it's account of the provisional ballot
numbers were provided by the counties
and are accurate as soon as we receive
any updates on the three big races being
recounted in Florida as well as the
Georgia governor's race we will update
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