Fla. County Works to Verify Election Day Ballots
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Channel: AP Archive · 2018 · News & Politics
(9 Nov 2018) Election officials in Palm Beach County, Florida are going over ballots to verify which ones are valid so that they can be counted or rejected. This comes as a possible recount looms in tight Governor and Senate contests in the state. In the governor's race, Democrat Andrew Gillum's campaign said Thursday it's readying for a possible recount. The race has tightened since he conceded to Republican Ron DeSantis on Tuesday night. As of Thursday afternoon, DeSantis led Gillum by 0.47 percentage point. Meanwhile, Democratic incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson has begun preparing for a potential recount in a race still too close to call against current Republican Gov. Rick Scott, who is leaving the governor's seat because of term limits. Scott said at a news conference Thursday night that he was asking the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to investigate elections offices in the Democratic strongholds of Palm Beach and Broward counties, questioning whether they are taking too long in vote-counting in some sort of effort to inflate the Democratic vote. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/685596e1d49f1a32f49d7d6bc8ad4540
