It's already long overdue.
Posted on 11/08/2018 1:12:28 PM PST by Vlad The Inhaler
The race for Florida governor appears headed for a recount, as Democrat Andrew Gillum continues to gain on Republican Ron DeSantis during the tallying of the final uncounted ballots cast in the midterm elections.
Gillum, the outgoing mayor of Tallahassee, conceded the race Tuesday night before 11 p.m. after results appeared to show him too far behind his opponent to make up the difference. DeSantis, a former congressman, gave his victory speech shortly after.
But thousands of votes remained untallied. And over the next 36 hours, the margins gradually shrank.
As of 9 a.m., DeSantis' lead was just 42,948 votes out of 8,189,305 ballots cast — equal to 0.52 percent of the vote. Concession speech or no, Florida law requires an automatic machine recount in any race where the margin of victory is within one half of one percentage point.
By 2 p.m., Gillum gained on DeSantis by another 4,441 votes, and now trails by only 0.47 percent.
Thousands of ballots still remain uncounted, so it's too soon to say whether a recount will indeed happen in the race for governor. Florida's 67 elections supervisors must send their unofficial numbers to the state by 1 p.m. Saturday, and campaign volunteers were scrambled around the state Thursday as supervisors prepared to examine provisional ballots cast by voters with unresolved issues at their polling places.
Late Thursday morning, Gillum campaign spokeswoman Johanna Cervone said the campaign was prepared for a recount effort.
"It has become clear there are many more uncounted ballots than was originally reported," she said in a statement. "Our campaign, along with our attorney Barry Richard, is monitoring the situation closely and is ready for any outcome, including a state-mandated recount."
The race for Agriculture Commissioner and U.S. Senate also appear headed for recounts, although those races are closer and could force the state to conduct recounts by hand, which is required when the margins between two candidates are within a quarter of a percent.
Voters have until 5 p.m. to address any outstanding problems with their provisional ballots.
But all eyes were on Broward County, which according to information published by the Florida Division of Elections has yet to report all its early voting and absentee voting totals. Broward is a Democratic party stronghold.
Are we heading for a repeat of the 2000 election - count, count and recount until democrats get the results they like?
This is the start of the civil war and not a cold one.
So Broward County can break the law and no elected official can look into this? hmmmmm.
Because they are filling them out as we speak ...
It's already long overdue.
This happens and the people needs to take to the streets. No joke.
Voting is the Achilles’ Heel of our Republic.
Attack the integrity of the voting process, which includes undermining the determination of who gets to vote, and you undermine our Republic.
Exactly!
Kill them all and let God sort them out!
Hmmm maybe they should re heck the panhandle, I’m pretty sure there might be boxes of ballots up there they will discover any minute now
Florida democrats appear to be initiating the Franken strategy. As well as Arizona.
Yes, we are.
We have no rule of law left. The mob is in control.
Frightening stuff.
I call the AG’ office today about this....stay tuned folks this may get ugly/violent
It’s time to flash mob broward county.
This attempted theft of the election in Florida, Georgia, Arizona and Montana can’t stand.
Stand strong Desantis!
We always seem to lose when they demand a recount.
Gillum will be up by 200,000 soon
Mail in ballots are in my view more subject to fraud than even lousy voting machines. Once an illegal manages by hook or by crook to get their name “registered” how accurate is mere “signature checking”, of the mail in ballot, at the county registrars office? This - mail in ballots - I highly suspect is an area of fraud the Dims in Florida planned on all along.
“Oh, we just discovered this other box of ballots”. Same old Dim dirty tricks. This country is so going to hell.
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