Chances are still slim that Democrat Bill Nelson will keep his Senate seat, but we most likely won’t know if Republican Rick Scott officially won until Saturday. The machine recount in Florida ended today at 3 pm with 66 of Florida’s 67 counties finishing. After a machine malfunction, Palm Beach County wasn’t able to complete its recount and a judge denied a request for an extension.  That means Palm Beach’s vote count from last Saturday stands.

The Senate race and the race for Agricultural Commissioner will now undergo a manual recount (if their margin is still under .25%).

As for the Gubernatorial race, Republican Ron DeSantis is officially Governor. His race against Democrat Andrew Gillum wasn’t close enough to head to a hand count.

One thing still being challenged is the 4400 ballots that were rejected due to signature issues. Today a judge granted an extension to verify those ballots. The New York Times reports:

On Thursday, Judge Mark Walker of the Federal District Court in Tallahassee ruled that voters whose ballots were invalidated by mismatches would have until 5 p.m. Saturday to resolve the problem. The new deadline would apply to just over 4,000 rejected ballots that could now be counted.

“This should give sufficient time, within the state’s and counties’ current administrative constraints, for Florida’s voters to ensure their votes will be counted,” he wrote.

Nelson filed another lawsuit against Bay County over votes that were sent via email or fax. The Miami Herald reports:

The incumbent candidate for U.S. Senate, who has filed three other lawsuits in the past week, is suing Bay County Supervisor of Elections Mark Andersen to stop any ballots received via email or fax from being counted.

The story goes on to say:

The supervisor told the Herald/Times Monday that 11 ballots were accepted by email and 147 ballots were domestically faxed in, though state statute does not allow emailed ballots, and faxing in ballots is only permitted for military and voters overseas.

Note: This will be updated when we get the vote totals from the recount.