Article snippet: Democrats and Republicans are bracing for a bitter legal fight over vote tallies in Florida that have thrown the state’s hotly contested Senate race into chaos and made a recount a virtual inevitability. The burgeoning legal fight between Sen. MORE (D) and Republican Gov. Rick Scott for the critical Senate race is shaping up to be one of the closest-watched election battles in Florida since the 2000 presidential election. Scott holds a razor-thin lead after Tuesday's election, making it likely the race will head to a hand recount. On Friday, a judge in Palm Beach County handed the Republican governor a key legal win, ordering county election officials to turn over ballots deemed defective to a canvassing board for further review Meanwhile, a judge in Broward County sided with Scott, ordering election officials there to release key information on how many ballots had been cast, how many had been counted and how many were left to count. The ruling came a day after Scott filed two emergency lawsuits against Broward County Supervisor of Election Brenda Snipes and Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher, alleging that their offices have withheld crucial information about the vote-counting process. Both counties tend to vote Democratic and were also at the heart of the 2000 vote dispute. Scott also took the unusual step of asking the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) to investigate election officials in Broward and Palm Beach, while accusing S... Link to the full article to read more