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both 2018 is not over yet a Senate
standoff is underway after a tight race
between Senator Bill Nelson and Governor
Rick Scott meanwhile Broward Election
staffers are still counting votes
because of technical issues there on
election day and local town news
reporter Alex Finney is live at the
Broward Elections headquarters right now
in Lauderhill
but let's get things started right now
with todd tongan he has some new
reaction today from bill Nelson's camp
what are they saying Todd well they're
saying a lot both sides are talking
about this the Nelson Scott race does
appear to be headed for a recount and a
very well-known DC lawyer who has about
30 years experience in post-election
litigation and dealing with recounts has
been hired now by the Nelson campaign he
held a telephone press conference just
moments ago and he says he's confident
that this will not only go to a recount
but it will go to a hand recount rather
than a machine recount here are the
numbers according to the Nelson campaign
of those votes the margin continuing to
dwindle Nelson continues to pick up
votes midnight election night
Nelson was down 50,000 approximately
50,000 votes against Scott 3:00 a.m. he
was down in about thirty four thousand
five hundred votes last night he was
down only twenty-six thousand votes
right now he is down 21,889 votes now
that's because they're still counting
votes in many counties that if the
margin is 0.5 or 1/2 a percent or less
it will be a machine count if it's 0.25
percent or less or a quarter percent or
less it'll be a manual hand count now
this is mandated by Florida election law
neither campaign can force a recount
they can request one but when the race
is this close the State Election Board
automatically calls for a recount and
meanwhile they are still counting
ballots in Broward and Palm Beach
counties as well as several other
counties in the Nelson campaign attorney
believes that Nelson may actually be in
the lead as he goes in to the recount
governor Scott's already declared a
victory based on some media outlets
projections that he's won but the state
has not certified the election they have
until noon on Saturday to do so in
Broward County
we know that they are still countering
they will count them late into the night
last night and as you know that
increased senator Nelson and the other
Democrats on the ticket their vote chair
and I expect that that process will
continue and we will see further results
there as the day progresses today I
would expect that we are going to be
well under the points to five percent
necessary for a hand recount and I think
that that's where we're headed now as
you can imagine the sky Scott campaign
not happy at all about a possible
recount in it they have essentially said
that the Nelson campaign's trying to
steal this election this campaign
released a statement saying it is sad
and embarrassing that Bill Nelson would
resort to these low tactics after the
voters have clearly spoken maybe next
he'll start ranting the Russians stole
the election from him obviously
mentioning the fact that senator Nelson
was accused of bringing up a possible
Russian election hack that was never
proven
now the Nelson campaign also is looking
at something called the undercount vote
and they say there's an unusual
undercount vote in Broward County
particularly an undercount is when one
race gets more votes than another race
for instance some people voted for the
governor's race but they didn't vote in
the Scott Nelson Senate race that's
called an undercount they believe that
those Broward percentages of the under
vote relate to the Nelson Scott
campaigns are unusually high and they
think that that could be due to scanning
errors and they think that a manual hand
count would work in their favor and
catch those errors this story certainly
not over by a long shot
remember that deadline though Saturday
at noon the elections have to be
certified so it looks like in this
campaign this race is certainly headed
towards a recap for now we're live in
Pembroke Park Donald 10 News all right
lots of lots of issues still to come on
this one okay thanks so much