right now the ballot battle is our big
story of the night the race to recount
three main races is now underway right
the deadline is just days away and some
of the candidates at the center of it
all are speaking out our team coverage
starts live with Madeline right in Fort
Lauderdale where a mayor and utilities
expected to speak Andrew and sanella
hundreds of people are here at new Mount
Olive Baptist Church to support the
recount as you can see there are several
speakers up at the podium talking about
how every vote counts and should count
meanwhile election staffers are working
around the clock to finish the recount
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 back here live at the church
you can see just how packed it is in
this room we're still waiting for mayor
Andrew Gilliam to speak the deadline for
that machine recount is going to be
Thursday at 3 p.m.
live in Fort Lauderdale Madeline Wright
local 10 News Madeline thank you our
live team coverage moves now to Doral
and that's where we find Saira anwer
she's there with a live look at how the
recount race in miami-dade County is
shaping up Saira Andrew and sanella one
out of ten votes cast in Florida comes
from here in miami-dade County so the
race the rush is on now here in Doral to
get all of those ballots recounted also
at hot topic here unsubmitted mail-in
ballots in opa-locka and the
n-double-a-cp of miami-dade county was
here today demanding every vote be
counted we've already seen today just
out of that opa-locka office 266 votes
that should have been counted not be
counted the recount race is ramping up
in miami-dade County where more than
800,000 ballots must now be retaliating
in three statewide races all separated
by a razor thin margin with the deadline
at 3 p.m. this Thursday Supervisor of
Elections Christina white planned 24
hour shifts for election workers as
Florida's most populous county
miami-dade election officials have now
ordered new high speed ballot counting
machines adding to the eight machines
the county already owns
the n-double-a-cp miami-dade branch
hosted a news conference Sunday outside
the elections Department demanding every
vote be counted when votes are not
counted the message is given that
people's voices do not matter
how many more countless votes are there
out there that should have been in the
process should have been submitted to
the process so the recount has already
started here even though those new
machines aren't expected to arrive until
tomorrow the end of lacey pieces a big
concern now is that people might be
discouraged to participate in the voting
process after they just saw a record
turnout in these midterms
we're live in Doral and Saira anwer
local 10 News Saira thank you meanwhile
Governor Rick Scott's campaign filing
lawsuits today against Broward and Palm
Beach counties one complaint wants to
prevent votes that were counted after
the Saturday deadline from being part of
the recount Scott spoke out this morning
on Fox News with some pretty harsh words
for his opponent Senator Bill Nelson
bill Nelson is a sore loser we've won
who have had to win this election twice
now I will be going to Washington as a
next year senator from Florida and I'm
gonna work hard to change the direction
this country like we did in Florida
there's never been a recount that's
changed in Florida any other state any
sort of win light any sort of win like
that so while we're going through the
recount we won this isn't the state one
Nelson releasing a statement today
saying quote if Rick Scott wanted to
make sure every legal ballot is counted
he would not be suing to try and stop
loaders from having their legal ballot
counted as intended he's doing this for
the same reason he's been making false
and panicked claims about voter fraud
he's worried that when all the votes are
counted he'll lose this election in the
matchup for the US Senate right now the
difference between Scott and Nelson is
just twelve thousand five hundred and
sixty-two votes
that's a margin of 0.15 percent in the
fight for Florida Ron DeSantis leads
Andrew Gilliam by 33 thousand six
hundred and eighty-four votes a margin
of 0.41%
and in the race for Agriculture
Commissioner Nikki freed has a five
thousand three hundred and twenty six
thousand of votes more than that
Caldwell the margin there is point zero
six percent