Follow-Up: Florida's 27th District Machine Recount Starts November 9: Salazar Leads Rodriguez by 1,090 Votes, Recount Results Due by November 12
Miami-Dade County posted an official notice on November 8 for the automatic machine recount in Florida's 27th Congressional District. The notice, issued under Sections 102.141(7) and 102.166 of the Florida Statutes, says the Miami-Dade County Canvassing Board will oversee the recount beginning no sooner than 10 a.m. on Monday, November 9, at the Office of the Supervisor of Elections, 2700 NW 87th Avenue in Miami. The notice says the start time is subject to change. NBC 6 South Florida, citing Supervisor of Elections Alina Garcia, reported that the Florida secretary of state ordered the recount and that it is set to begin at 10 a.m. Monday at the county's election headquarters in Doral.
Unofficial returns from the Florida Division of Elections remain unchanged: Republican Rep. María Elvira Salazar has 124,528 votes (50.22%) and Democrat Eliott Rodriguez has 123,438 (49.78%), a margin of 1,090 votes, or 0.44% of 247,966 cast — inside Florida's 0.5% threshold for an automatic machine recount.
Under the state election calendar, machine-recount returns are due by 3 p.m. ET Thursday, November 12, and a manual recount of overvotes and undervotes follows only if the margin is 0.25% or less. Official county returns are due November 16, and the state canvassing commission meets November 17 to certify.
Separately, Rodriguez filed a federal lawsuit on Friday in the Southern District of Florida seeking to keep Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections Alina Garcia from serving on the county canvassing board for this race, NBC News and Florida Politics reported. The suit alleges bias, citing her election-night comments and an alleged family tie to Salazar's recount lawyer. Garcia has said she will not recuse herself and that there is no conflict. Salazar has said she welcomes the recount. No major network or the Associated Press has projected a winner; a leader is not a winner, and all figures above are unofficial.
Source: Miami-Dade County Supervisor of Elections
Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 图：迈阿密-戴德县选举监督官阿丽娜·加西亚（Alina Garcia）官方肖像。图片来源：迈阿密-戴德县政府（Wikimedia Commons，公共领域）
- 2026-11-06Salazar Leads by 1,090 Votes in Final FL-27 Count; Margin Triggers Recount
- 2026-11-08Follow-Up: Florida's 27th District Machine Recount Starts November 9: Salazar Leads Rodriguez by 1,090 Votes, Recount Results Due by November 12This story
