“An unprecedented statewide hand recount is now under way in the Sunshine State, further extending a high-stakes, partisan battle over every last vote in Florida’s crucial U.S. Senate race,” the Miami Herald reports.
“Following a five-day machine recount of the more than 8.3 million votes cast in the Nov. 6 elections, Secretary of State Ken Detzner ordered hand recounts Thursday afternoon in the race between Sen Bill Nelson (D) and Gov. Rick Scott (R).”
“The order gives canvassing boards in the state’s 67 counties three days to pore over thousands of ballots that were rejected by machines because of ‘overvotes’ — a voter appears to have chosen more than one candidate in a race — or ‘undervotes,’ in which a voter appears to have skipped a race altogether.”
