Countdown of Votes in Arizona, Florida and Georgia: Latest Accounts and Status of Senate and Governor Election Results

Election Day has passed, but four of the biggest races still need to be qualified. The Arizona Senate race, the Florida governor and senate races, and Georgia's governorship race have narrow margins between Democratic and Republican candidates.

Here is an overview of the number of votes (and possible recounts) in the three states several days after the country's voters went to the polls:

Senate race of Arizona

Election day votes are still being compiled in Arizona.

As early as Saturday morning, Democrat Kyrsten Sinema led the race against Republican Martha McSally with around 20,000 votes. McSally had taken the lead in the days following the poll, but Sinema took the lead when ballots from highly democratic areas such as Maricopa County were counted.

It takes several days to count the votes, not least because about three quarters of Arizona voters send out postal ballots, which means they fill their votes at home and mail them to the Electoral Council. from their county. Some postal ballots arriving at the approach of polling day, their counting takes longer.

In addition, the counties of Maricopa and Pima – two essentially democratic counties – allow voters to resolve issues related to postal ballots until five days after the election if there is a disparity between the signature of their registration and that of the candidate. voting envelope. Last week, four county republican parties filed a lawsuit to prevent counties from trying to verify signatures after the polls closed.

Arizona Democrats and Republicans reached a regulation on the issue Friday, allowing voters in rural counties, as well as Maricopa and Pima, to have more time to resolve their voting problems. Counties have until November 14 to solve the problem.

Saturday, we did not know when the count of votes would be over.

Florida: Senate and Governor Races

The votes are still counted in Florida, and there is talk of a possible recount.

Florida electoral law indicates that an automatic recount should be done if the margin between two candidates is less than half a percentage point. At the end of Friday morning, two races in this state met this criterion.

Senate Republican candidate and current Gov. Rick Scott leads outgoing Senator Bill Nelson with less than 15,000 votes, or about 0.2%. Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis heads Democrat Andrew Gillum with less than 40,000 votes, or about 0.4 percent.

The counting of votes is centered on Broward County and Palm Beach County, two densely populated counties that tend to vote Democrats. Friday, Scott won two lawsuits – One ordered the Palm Beach County Election Supervisor to submit "over-voted" and "under-voted" ballots to the Palm Beach County Solicitation Council for public review of each vote before their countdown. Unnecessary votes are ballots in which the machines read that the voter may have selected more than one candidate, and an under-vote occurs when the machine does not record a vote on the ballot. The other lawsuit ordered the Broward County Election Supervisor to disclose voter information.

Scott and President Trump claimed without proving that the Democrats were altering the election.

The count of unofficial votes is due on Saturday at noon. If the margin of both races is respected, they will be recounted. If this recount shows that one or both races are within a quarter of a point, a manual recount will take place.

Governor of Georgia

If no candidate receives more than 50% of the votes in Georgia, the first two candidates qualify for the second round.

The Republican candidate for the governorship, Brian Kemp, is currently leading with 50.3% of the vote, which is above the threshold required for the second round. However, Democrat Stacey Abrams says all votes were not counted and mobilized a campaign to reach voters who used provisional ballots to ensure their vote was counted.

The Kemp camp says that there are not enough unsubmitted ballots to reduce the margin and count on December 4.

Total votes must be certified in all Georgia counties by Tuesday night.

The accusations of repression of voters cast a shadow over the compilation of votes. Kemp was secretary of the Georgian state until his resignation Thursday. During his tenure, his office removed 1.5 million voters from the lists. His office also suspended the registration of 53,000 voters shortly before the elections, 70% of whom were blacks, although a judge ruled that these voters could vote on polling day. Democrats argue that Kemp's apparent victory is due to the tactic of suppressing voters.