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Florida has ordered a recount of votes in the elections for the governorship of the state and for a senatorial position in Washington amid reciprocal accusations of fraudulent candidates.
Eighteen years after a recount that remained famous in the 2000 presidential election, Florida is once again immersed in electoral uncertainty.
The recount was ordered by Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner in accordance with the laws in force. The 67 Florida counties had until 12:00 local time (17:00 GMT) to provide their totals. The results should be known on November 15th.
For the governor's election, the latest unofficial results released on Saturday showed Republican Ron DeSantis, backed by President Donald Trump, ahead of Democratic candidate Andrew Gillum, one of the opposition's new faces, by only 33,684 votes over 8.2 million ballots, or 0.41%.
The race between Democratic Senator Bill Nelson and his Republican rival Rick Scott, the current governor of Florida, was even tighter: Scott's advance was 12,562 votes, a margin of 0.15 percentage points ( 50.07% vs. 49.92%).
The climate has been very tense since Tuesday night in Florida, a state accustomed to stretching and controversy.
After the announcement of a recount, Andrew Gillum returned on Tuesday's speech in which he acknowledged his defeat, to call "without complex and uncompromising" to "recount all newsletters."
Donald Trump has mentioned a risk of electoral manipulation. "They are trying to FLY two polls in Florida!", Tweeted the president from France where he participated in the commemorations of the armistice of November 11, 1918. "We are watching closely!"
– Memories of 2000 –
Since Tuesday, Donald Trump has several times implied that some local Florida officials sought to rig the results in favor of Democrats, speaking of "shame for our country and for democracy."
He mainly blamed the counties of Broward and Palm Beach, whose voters largely topped Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
Broward County election official Brenda Snipes admitted Friday that she had unwittingly mixed a few dozen spoiled ballot papers with ballots in the count.
Rick Scott's campaign sued Brenda Snipes and his counterpart in Palm Beach County for violating the electoral code.
On Saturday, Rick Scott called on Florida sheriffs to "ensure any violations in the recount process, as provided by Florida law."
His competitor, outgoing Democratic Senator Bill Nelson, accuses Mr. Scott of trying to prevent voters from voting. He also filed a lawsuit to block any measure that would reject thousands of votes by correspondence.
The other Florida senator, Marco Rubio, whose seat was not in play at the polls, put oil on the fire by relaying the video of a notorious conspiracy in which newsletters would be smuggled.
In general, it is not so much the small discrepancy observed in the two polls as the malfunctions observed during the initial count.
For several specialists, the large number of postal votes would have contributed to clogging the electoral machine during this election.
In addition, according to the Miami Herald, more than 25,000 voters have not completed the part of the newsletter devoted to the appointment of a new senator, feeding the suspicion of a failure, hypothesis refuted by Brenda Snipes.
Nearly twenty years ago, the "Sunshine State" (sunny state, his nickname) had already been talked about during the historic muddle of the American presidential election of 2000.
Florida then occupied the world's media when only a few votes separated Republican George W. Bush from Democrat Al Gore.
The striking images of officials scrutinizing, sometimes with a magnifying glbad, one by one punched punched ballots have marked the memories.
The process was finally decided by the US Supreme Court. The Republican defeated the Democrat in Florida by 537 votes and won the presidential election.
Florida is not the only US state to still be in the grip of election uncertainty.
In neighboring Georgia, Democratic presidential candidate Stacey Abrams is holding on to counting the last ballots against Republican rival Brian Kemp, who has about 60,000 votes in advance.
In Arizona, it is a senator who is in the balance, the Democrat Kyrsten Sinema with about 18,000 votes ahead of his rival Republican Martha McSally, but tens of thousands of newsletters remained to be tapped on Saturday.
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AFP
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