DeSantis is ratified as governor of Florida but there will be a manual recount in the Senate race

Miami, Nov 15 (EFEUSA).- In the election for State Governor, Republican Ron DeSantis received the endorsement of 49.59% of voters, while Democrat Andrew Gillum, mayor of Tallahassee, the state capital, obtained 49.18% of the votes.

Regarding the electoral contest for a seat in the United States upper house for Florida between Senator Bill Nelson and the Republican candidate, the state's governor Rick Scott, will go to a manual recount of votes once the results of the automatic count known today were inconclusive.

The Florida Division of Elections ordered a manual recount after mechanical accounting that began over the weekend kept a narrow margin between Scott, who has a total of 4,097,680 votes (50.07%) in the elections last December 6. this month, against 4,085,086 of his Democratic rival (49.92%).

The manual recount of the votes for the federal Senate election should be known next Sunday, according to the Florida Division of Elections schedule.

The new results do not include the count done in Palm Beach County, majority democrat, which had already anticipated problems in meeting the established deadline due to the overheating of the "obsolete" machines.

Before electoral authorities ruled that the distance between the two candidates was less than 0.25 percentage points and a manual recount of the ballots was necessary, Scott highlighted in a statement that his lead over Nelson had increased by 865 votes, for a total margin of 13,427.

"Last week, Florida voters elected me as their next United States senator and the votes have already been counted twice," said Scott, who asked his rival to "respect the will of the voters and graciously put an end to to this process, rather than proceeding with a further recount of the votes.

Shortly before the deadline for the state's counties to deliver the results of the recount of the votes cast in the last midterm elections, a federal judge had rejected the Nelson campaign's request to extend the deadline to include all votes.

However, Nelson's attorney, Marc Elías, noted this Thursday that Secretary of State Ken Detzner sent "a directive to counties informing them of the extended period to correct ballots that do not match the signature."

With the mechanical recount process of more than 8 million ballots completed today, Detzner has not only ordered a manual recount for the Senate race, but also for the position of Agriculture Commissioner, in which the Democrat has a margin of 0.06% of votes, almost the same as on Sunday, when the new accounting began.