Broward County finished recounting ballots in three top Florida races Thursday but failed to send the totals to the state before the deadline.
[So] the [Florida] state department instead accepted the vote totals Broward sent on Saturday, the first unofficial deadline the county had to meet.
As it turns out, surprisingly, . . . no wait, unsurprisingly everyone lost votes in the [now invalid] recount:
US Senate Race:
Rick Scott (R) minus 606 votes
Bill Nelson (D) minus 1385 votes
In the Florida Governor Race:
Ron DeSantis( R) minus 621 votes
Andrew Gillum (D) minus 1373 votes
As the Naples Daily News concludes:
"The controversy in Broward began hours after polls closed on Election Day. The county's results showed the Scott-Nelson race for Senate with significantly fewer votes - nearly 20,000 - than other races on the ballot, including the governor's race.
The lack of votes recorded in Broward suggested that far fewer ballots were cast in the Scott-Nelson race, but after the election Broward officials added more than 70,000 votes, including early in-person and absentee ballots, to the count. The votes added to the count increased the totals for the Democrats in those top state races, and helped push the races into machine recount territory.
The county will start manually recounting ballots 7 a.m. Friday [16 November]."
Anything is possible in Browatrd County.