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Saw this Twitter:

jmartpolitico RT @gbennettpost: St. Lucie partial recount shows both Murphy and West losing votes; canvassing board OKs results.

Madam Elections Stupidvisor Walker, soon to be in the Obama Administration, DOJ Voter Rights Division. (wish i was being sarcastic)

OK- In simple terms, here is where we stand:
West complained that the 37000+ “Early” votes had counting problems election night. The Supervisor said they had a faulty memory card on one of the counting machines that failed to upload all the votes. So she re-counted them at 2 am Wednesday. He claimed he was ahead by 2500 votes, and after the recount he was behind by 2000 votes. His concern was/is that some votes were counted twice.
Because of all the controversy and an admitted computer problem, the state stepped up and told the Supervisor to recount those early votes.
She publicly noticed an emergency meeting for 7am today to recount the early votes.
But then she decided only to recount 3 of the 8 days: the final 3 days with approx 16000 votes. West protested, believing all 37000 early votes should be counted.
They finished the count, with more counting problems with memory cards failing, and it showed 799 FEWER votes than originally reported.
Murphy lost 535 votes, West lost 132 votes, lowering the margin of victory to .58%. Threshold for automatic recount is .5% or less.
BUT! If counting only 3 days shows a discrepancy of 799 votes, it strengthens his contention that all 37000 votes should be re-tabulated.
I am fairly certain the state elections officials were there today, and am hopeful they will order a full re-tabulation of all the early votes. If the percentage of error holds, it could further cut the margin to trigger the automatic recount of all votes in all 3 counties in the District.