Two of the four machine recounts called for following last Tuesdays primary -- both involving Democrats -- are heading to a second overtime.
In all four close contests, the numbers changed in the machine recounts that were due Sunday afternoon, but not the results.
State Senate District 27: State Rep. Jeff Clemens, D-Lake Worth, is still ahead of Rep. Mack Bernard, D-West Palm Beach.
State House District 107: Rep. Barbara Watson, D-Miami Gardens, continues to lead Rep. John Julien, D-North Miami Beach,
State House District 55: Cary Pigman of Avon Park is now the winner, defeating former Rep. Randy Johnson of Sebring.
The 4th Judicial Circuit, Group 1: Judge Brian Davis defeated three opponents.
Secretary of State Ken Detzner called for the machine recounts as the contests were decided by a margin of 0.5 percent or less of the votes cast.
When the difference remains within 0.25 percent following the machine recount, the contest heads to a manual recount, which includes having canvassing board members review paper ballots for overvotes and undervotes.
Detzners spokesman Chris Cate, on Twitter, noted that the results of the manual recounts are due by 5 p.m. on Tuesday.
In South Florida, Watsons totals dropped from 5,284 on Tuesday to 5,277 in the recount, while Rep. John Julien, D-North Miami Beach, had his numbers decrease from 5,258 to 5,252.
Meanwhile, in SD 27 on Tuesday, Clemens claimed a 34-vote victory. After the recount, the divide was reduced to 29 -- 12,146 to 12,117.
The Sun-Sentinel reported that a lawyer for Bernard suggested they may even contest the tally in court.
"My great concern is the number of provisional ballots that were rejected solely -- and I cannot emphasize solely enough -- because of poll worker error and not error of the voter," J.C. Planas, a former Republican lawmaker representing Bernard, told the Sentinel.
In the Republican contest in the new HD 55, Pigman received 34 more votes than Johnson (5,980 to 5,946), which expanded the gap from 30 votes on Tuesday, pushing the contest outside the 0.25 percent, Cate tweeted.
In the voting, Pigman dominated the voting in Highlands County, while Johnson had majorities from the district voters in Glades, Okeechobee and St. Lucie counties.
Pigman, a physician who completed a tour of duty with the U.S. Army in Northern Iraq as a lieutenant colonel, now moves to the general election to take on Democrat Crystal Drake, a teacher from Moore Haven.
Despite having spent more than two-thirds of the $94,919 raised for the primary, Pigman enters the next round with a fiscal advantage against Moore, who has already spent nearly all of the $12,242 she has raised since opening her campaign account.
In the judicial contest in Clay, Duval and Nassau counties, Davis picked up 83 votes in the recount from the initial tally on Tuesday.
The new total improved his percent of the vote from 50.32 percent to 50.33 percent.
While Davis finished well ahead of his opponents, the recount was called because a candidate must win by more than 0.5 percent of the total votes cast.
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