-Source-USAToday-
It could take the whole month of November to definitively decide who Florida's next governor and senator will be.
Evoking memories of the 2000 election when the nation anxiously watched as a Florida recount determined who would be president, a statewide machine recount began Saturday of the more than 8 million votes cast in last week's midterm election.
The recount was triggered by the razor-thin margins in both the Senate race, where Gov. Rick Scott holds a 12,562 vote, or 0.15 percent, lead over incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson, and the governor's race, where Republican Rep. Ron DeSantis, led Democratic Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum by fewer than 34,000 votes or a margin of .41 percent. As in the 2000 recount between Al Gore and George W. Bush, the legal battles are heating up. Scott has filed motions in the Democratic strongholds of Broward and Palm Beach counties. He has denounced "rampant fraud" and accused Read more