Article snippet: The Florida Senate race between Sen. MORE (D-Fla.) and Gov. Rick Scott (R) is heading to a hand recount after the latest round of machine tallies showed the two candidates still neck and neck. Nelson and Scott were separated by a margin of about 0.15 percentage points, according to results of a machine recount released Thursday – a narrow enough margin to trigger a hand recount under state law. The hand recount must be completed by Sunday, in time for a Nov. 20 deadline for state officials to certify the final election results. A manual recount does not mean that every ballot is counted by hand. Instead, local election officials will sort through so-called overvotes and undervotes – ballots on which voters marked either more or fewer than the maximum number of selections allowed. In Broward County alone, there are some 23,000 overvotes and undervotes that must be sorted through by hand, according to Marc Elias, the lead recount lawyer for Nelson. He said that a hand recount will determine whether poor ballot design caused the undervotes or if they are the product of another issue, like machine errors. “That will ultimately, I believe not only narrow the margin [between Nelson and Scott], but reverse it entirely,” he argued in a conference call with reporters on Thursday evening. “This is what we’ve been seeking all along, because this is where people lay eyes on the ballots.” The race for agriculture commissioner is also heading for a hand recount after results o... Link to the full article to read more