Thursday, November 15, 2018

The recount was concluded in reasonable time and it worked.

Ron DeSantis - 49.6 percent (click here)

Andrew Gillum - 49.2 percent

No surprise and why the Republicans wanted to end the LEGAL and LEGITIMATE recount in a cloud of corruption, Miami-Dade and Broward went for Andrew Gillum.

According to my math, that is a difference of 33,691 votes in an election where 8,271,787 voters participated. That means there is a difference of 0.4 percent. The hand recount was just announced. That is an extremely close margin.

I am fairly confident the margin of error of the voting machines is higher than that. There absolutely was a margin of error with the computers used in Florida. They are outdated and malfunctioned while counting.

It looks like the Senate is going to receive a hand recount as well.

November 15, 2018

Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson (click here) trailed his Republican challenger, Florida Governor Rick Scott, by about 12,600 votes, or 0.15 percent of the more than 8 million ballots cast following an electronic recount. The razor-thin margin triggers a manual recount under state law.
Elections officials were expected to inspect by hand any ballots that were designated undervotes or overvotes, cases where the machine that reviewed the ballot concluded that a voter had skipped a contest or marked more than one selection.

If the voter's intentions are clear on review by a person, the ballot could be counted....