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Broward and Palm Beach County elections officials were still counting votes on Thursday morning, and questions continued about why more than 24,000 people voted for governor but not Senate in Broward. The Broward elections office counted 22,000 ballots Wednesday, continuing late into the night. In total, more than 695,700 Broward ballots were counted by 1 a.m. Thursday.

ORLANDO, Fla. - In the days after Election Day, county supervisor of elections offices across Florida are convening canvasing boards to count “challenged" or provisional ballots to make sure there is no uncertainty about the ballot. Election officials give voters provisional ballots for several reasons, including if a voter did not have proper identification at the time they voted or their name was not found on the voter rolls. Provisional ballots are hand-checked by canvasing boards that determine if the voter was eligible to vote at the time their ballot was cast. Boards of election or local election officials usually...

Is this the real life … or is this just fantasy? One thing’s for sure — we’re not caught in a landslide either way in Florida. The final release from GOP pollster Trafalgar in the Sunshine State shows Gov. Rick Scott edging out to a lead of almost two points against incumbent Democrat Sen. Bill Nelson. The poll also puts Ron DeSantis back on top over Andrew Gillum in the gubernatorial race by an even wider margin: Breaking: Our FINAL @trafalgar_group Florida #Midterm #poll conducted 11/4-5 shows: Governor@RonDeSantisFL 50%@AndrewGillum 46.6% Other 1.4% Und. 2.1% US Senate@FLGovScott 49%@NelsonForSenate 47.3% Und. 3.7%#FLsen...

Gov. Rick Scott declared victory Tuesday with a slim 0.68 percentage point win over U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, who conceded even though his campaign raised issues with ballot counting in several South Florida counties. Nelson advisor Dan McLaughlin told supporters at Nelson’s election night event at the Embassy Suites in Orlando that the campaign had concerns about ballot counting in several south Florida counties. But just after midnight, the Nelson campaign said he would concede. “This is obviously not the result Senator Nelson's campaign has worked hard for,” said Pete Mitchell, Nelson’s campaign manager. “The senator will be making a...

Ron DeSantis and Rick Scott are winning 14-15% of the black vote according to the Trafalgar exit polls. This is NOT good news for Democrats

Florida Democrat Sen. Bill Nelson called Wednesday for a recount in his race for re-election against Republican Gov. Rick Scott. In a statement from Nelson's office, the longtime incumbent said Scott had prematurely declared victory in the race, which CNN has not yet called. In Florida, an automatic recount is triggered when the final margin is less than .5% and is not triggered by candidate requests. Votes were still being counted Wednesday morning, but Scott's lead was within that margin, according to CNN projections. The initial vote count won't be finalized until Saturday at noon.

FLORIDA - The U.S. Senate race between Florida Gov. Rick Scott and Sen. Bill Nelson is still statistically too close to call – despite Scott calling the race for himself Tuesday night. Poll results are counting in at 50-50 with Scott pulling ahead slightly with less than 40,000 votes between them. In a speech to supporters in Naples just before midnight on Tuesday, Scott said he was confident in his victory.

Camera Hogg lost big! No gun control in FL. If anything, the gun laws will get loser. The Dems ran away from this issue.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Ron DeSantis was elected governor of Florida on Tuesday, handing President Trump an important victory and extending the Republican Party’s dominance in the nation’s third-largest state. Mr. DeSantis, a 40-year-old former congressman, fended off his opponent, Andrew Gillum, one of the strongest candidates Florida Democrats had fielded in years. Republicans have now won every election for governor since 1998. “Every two years there’s one day in November where elites don’t call the shots, don’t craft the narrative or set the agenda,” Mr. DeSantis told jubilant supporters festooned in confetti in an Orlando hotel ballroom late on Tuesday...

Constitutional Amendment 4 — known as the Voting Restoration Amendment — was passed in the state, allowing nearly 1.5 million convicted felons who’ve served out their sentence to vote. The measure doesn’t apply to anyone convicted of murder and felony sex offenses. Prior to the amendment, convicted felons in the state had to wait five years after serving out their sentence and then apply with the Florida Clemency Board for the right to vote. The governor then needed to personally approve their petition to have their rights restored.

Fox Calls Florida for Rick Scott!

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Congressman Ron DeSantis won the Florida's governor's race tonight with 49.9 percent of the vote, defeating his progressive opponent Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum in one of the mostly closely watched races in the country. Despite the blue wave of support that showed up for Gillum and across the country, the Trump-backed former prosecutor won of men and older voters, continuing a two-decade-long legacy of Republican governors in the Sunshine State.

Democrat Donna Shalala wins election to U.S. House in Florida's 27th congressional district, defeating Republican Maria Elvira Salazar, The Associated Press projects.

A new survey shows that while healthcare and the economy are "very important" to voters, the issues of climate change and alleged Russia collusion in the 2016 election are at the bottom of the list for voters in terms of importance. In the poll, Gallup asked, "How important will each of the following issues be to your vote for Congress this year?"

If anyone has a SmartPhone they can help from anywhere in the USA. Florida - Rick Scott for Senator and Ron DeSantis for Governor need help with phone calling folks to motivate them to the polls. We are targeting the entire state until 7PM EST and those in the PanHandle until 8PM EST. The people we are targeting are registered Republican voters that have not voted as of yesterday. If you are interesting in making 20 calls or more send a Freep Mail ASAP. They have an app. that you can download and it's easy to do. Thanks in advance.

Bree :) VOTE REPUBLICAN @BreeTide FLORIDA UPDATE: Pinellas County: Total turnout = 54.39% Election Day turnout: GOP: 31,149 DEM: 25,240 Pinellas County has +3,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans. Next update 4pm EST

Rush just reported a polling group (tensilar?) just reported the last poll of the election with DeSantis 50 to 46 Gillum and 49 Scott to 47 Nelson. This group was the only group in 2016 that had Trump winning. Please God, let it be so!!!!

Totals for Florida early vote. Absentee Ballot (VBM) - REPs lead by 63,496 In-Person Early Voting - DEMs lead by 85,849 Combined Early voting - DEMs lead by 22,353 At this same time in 2016: DEMs lead of 96,450 Numbers represent ballots cast by party registration. Ballots have not been counted yet.

Florida’s largest newspaper chain published a well-timed hit piece on Gov. Rick Scott, an apparent attempt to undermine his campaign to unseat forever Washington politician Sen. Bill Nelson — the man Forbes magazine once famously depicted on their cover with, literally, an empty suit. The pre-planned package of stories was published by GateHouse Media, which owns 21 newspapers in the state, including dailies in Jacksonville, Palm Beach, Sarasota, Daytona Beach, Panama City, Gainesville, St. Augustine and many more. The newspapers ran an astonishingly bad piece of journalism out of the Palm Beach newsroom entitled “Florida felon voting rights: Who got...