After a chaotic statewide machine recount left a high-profile Senate race still undecided, Florida on Friday set out in earnest on a manual recount of ballots cast in the midterm election, a daunting effort to examine problem ballots that must completed by Sunday.
Election workers in the state’s 67 counties were examining tens of thousands of so-called undervotes and overvotes — ballots with no vote cast in a key race, or too many votes. — to try to determine voter intent.