In the much-acclaimed Senate race in the US state of Florida, the votes must be recounted – and this time by hand. This step was necessary because even a machine recounting of the votes of the election to the US Senate has delivered no clear result, said the election official of the state on Thursday.
The electronic recount had yielded Republican Rick Scott ahead of his Democratic rival Bill Nelson by just 0.15 percentage points – just like the first count immediately after the election. US federal laws require a hand count if the lead candidate’s lead in the machine recount is less than 0.25 percentage points.
The responsible people now have until Sunday time for the counting by hand. In the process, about 5,000 absentee ballots, which had not been counted before, are to be taken into account. The Republican Scott – former governor of the state – had already declared himself the winner in the race. He said on Thursday that he has a lead of 13,427 votes after the machine recount.
After the congressional election on 6 November, there were repeated allegations of fraud and lawsuits. President In the much-acclaimed Senate race in the US state of Florida, the votes must be recounted – and this time by hand. This step was necessary because even a machine recounting of the votes of the election to the US Senate has delivered no clear result, said the election official of the state on Thursday.
The electronic recount had yielded Republican Rick Scott ahead of his Democratic rival Bill Nelson by just 0.15 percentage points – just like the first count immediately after the election. US federal laws require a hand count if the lead candidate’s lead in the machine recount is less than 0.25 percentage points.
The responsible people now have until Sunday time for the counting by hand. In the process, about 5,000 absentee ballots, which had not been counted before, are to be taken into account. The Republican Scott – former governor of the state – had already declared himself the winner in the race. He said on Thursday that he has a lead of 13,427 votes after the machine recount.
After the congressional election on 6 November, there were repeated allegations of fraud and lawsuits. President Donald Trump accused some Democrats in Florida of corruption, but did not provide evidence.
The Republicans around Trump had lost their control of the House of Representatives in the so-called Midterms, but were able to defend their majority in the Senate. However, they could not expand this as far as it had looked in the meantime. Although the conservatives denied the Democrats their seats in North Dakota, Missouri and Indiana, however, they lost Nevada and Arizona. Florida is therefore under special observation, but did not provide evidence.
