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Volunteer observers monitor the elections on Friday during the manual recount of votes cast in Palm Beach County for the US Senate race.
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Volunteer observers monitor the elections on Friday during the manual recount of votes cast in Palm Beach County for the US Senate race.
Michele Eve Sandberg / AFP / Getty Images
Updated at 2:19 PM ET
After two stories, a deluge of lawsuits and loaded political rhetoric, the 12-day Florida marathon is finally drawing to a close.
According to the official results of the Florida Elections Division, current Republican Governor Rick Scott will lead Democratic Senator Bill Nelson in the contested Senate race. Scott's lead is slightly reduced to around 10,000 votes. Nelson has scheduled a press conference Sunday afternoon, during which he is expected to discuss his political future.
Scott announced that Nelson had called to concede.
The official results were due to the office of State Secretary Ken Detzner of Florida's 67 counties Sunday at noon. About an hour before that deadline, Broward County, which is one of two counties in the epicenter of the state counting drama, announced that it had completed its recount and reported the results.
As the margin between Nelson and Scott was less than a quarter of a percentage point after the first recount, the current law provided for a manual count of ballots for which a machine could not read clearly, either because the race was left behind. in blank, either because there were other brands that made the ballot uncertain.
The results released by county election officials on Sunday will reflect the recounted totals, as well as the ballots received from electors from the military and overseas voters. As long as the ballots from abroad were sent before November 6, they will be counted when they have been received by county authorities by Friday.
A federal judge dismissed several lawsuits filed by Nelson to reduce the deficit. They included a request for the counting of national ballot papers received after polling day and an application for the cancellation of a state law requiring voters to use the same method of marking for the different races on their ballots.
The Scott campaign has called every day Nelson to concede. To show his confidence, Scott attended a briefing in Washington last week for new senators.
In a statement released Sunday, Scott's campaign said Nelson had a choice: "Remember the statesman who graciously conceded after 42 years of public service … or remember the painful loser who refused to face the people that he was serving. "
The Democratic candidate for governor, Andrew Gillum, conceded Saturday night after concluding that his own recount would not reduce enough the gap with his opponent, Republican Ron DeSantis.
In his Saturday dealership, Gillum spoke about the entanglement of issues related to the election administration that were discovered by these candidates, 18 years after the state was subjected to scrutiny for the Presidential election of 2000.
"We are doing everything in our power to ensure that, in the coming weeks and months, we will do everything in our power to perfect our electoral system," said Mr. Gillum. "We need to update Florida's electoral system and bring it to the 21st century."
RPN national political correspondent Don Gonyea contributed to the reports.
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