How Florida's story will work

Let's start with the basics of understanding counting in Florida.

First of all, it's worth remembering that Florida has never done a manual recount across the state. The 2000 count was conducted nationally by automatic counting, with four counties participating in the manual count: Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Volusia. And these stories were stopped during the process by the decision of the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore.

But Florida is expected to conduct a state-wide manual recount for the US Senate race and the competition for the agriculture commissioner, once the recount results are released Thursday afternoon. The race for governor can be settled without manual recount, if (as expected) the margin between the representative Ron DeSantis and the mayor of Tallahassee, Andrew Gillum, is not close to 0.25%.

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Counties do not count all 8 million ballot papers by hand. It would take forever. They will look at one particular type of ballot, which involves critical votes and negative votes.

Voting and voting is as follows: a voter from Florida filled out his ballot by hand and gave it to an election official to be counted at the machine. The machine then read more than one vote or less than one vote in a given race. .

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An over-vote occurs when the machine reads the ballot as indicating a vote for too many candidates in the same race. In the race in the US Senate between Senator Bill Nelson, the Democrat, and his rival, Governor Rick Scott, an over-vote would mean that the machine would read the ballot as indicating a vote for both Nelson and Scott. More often than not, an elector begins to mark a candidate's ballot, makes a mistake and fills the other more completely. The machine reads both bubbles as being filled and invalidates the vote in this race.

All ballots with over-voting and under-voting will be assessed manually in two stages. County workers will sort the ballots and, if the elector's real intention is not obvious, campaign volunteers involved in the recount may request that the vote be evaluated by a council. solicitation consisting of the local election supervisor, the chair of the polling council. the county commissioners' council and a county court judge.

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But it is possible that a number of voters tried to mark a choice in the Senate race and this was not recorded by the machine process.

This could make a significant difference, as the number of disadvantaged votes in the Senate race is greater than the margin between the two candidates: Nelson is 12 points behind Scott's 12,562 votes, when counties have reported their preliminary results . At the same time, Democrat Nikki Fried led the agricultural race commissioner with 5,326 votes more than Republican Matt Caldwell.

The other outstanding issue in the recount is about 5,000 ballots across the country, which were not counted because the signature on the postal ballot did not match the signature on the record. of State.

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The Democrats had asked the judge to completely remove the requirement of matching signatures and count the 5,000 ballots that had been thrown away.

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The deadline for recounting hands is Sunday noon.

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