DeSantis, Scott, Fried are officially winners

Posted on November 21, 2018

Eleven days after the 2018 general election — a period of time that included two recounts, multiple lawsuits and national ridicule levied against Florida — the Sunshine State’s votes were finally officially tallied and submitted, bringing an end to the partisan saga.

In the governor’s race, Republican Ron DeSantis has officially defeated Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum by 32,463 votes (out of a total of 8,220,561 ballots cast statewide), as the machine recount resulted in both candidates picking up votes and the margin between the two narrowing only slightly.

PHOTO: Under the watchful gaze of several attorneys and observers from several different statewide candidates and both major political parties, Taylor County Supervisor of Elections Office workers carefully performed machine and manual recounts last week before coming up with the exact same vote totals as originally submitted to the state.

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