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November 16, 2018

Florida Senate Race Heads to Manual Recount
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In Florida, the Senate race is headed to a manual recount after a
machine recount ended Thursday. Republican Governor Rick Scott maintains
a narrow lead over Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson, but the margin
between the two candidates is still less than 0.25 percent. Several
counties missed the deadline for reporting machine recount tallies,
including Palm Beach and Broward County, which missed the deadline by
two minutes.

The Florida gubernatorial race has Republican Ron De Santis ahead of
Democrat Andrew Gillum by 0.41 percent, making De Santis the likely
winner, though Gillum has vowed to keep pushing for all votes to be
counted, including a number of ballots rejected due to signature or
other discrepancies.


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