https://www.politicususa.com/2018/11/12/trump-seeks-end-for-florida-recount-as-republicans-leads-shrink.html

By Letitia Stein and Susan Heavey
TAMPA, Fla./WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday urged Florida e******n officials to end a recount and declare his fellow Republicans the winners of disputed races in last week’s midterm e******ns
as a judge urged both parties to be careful with claims of fraud.

As Florida officials scrambled to review more than 8 million b****ts by Thursday, Trump, without providing evidence, cast doubt on the recount process.
Leads by the Republican candidates in the races for a seat in the U.S. Senate and for the governor’s office shrank as more b****ts were tallied following last Tuesday’s e******n. State law mandates recounts in e******ns where margin of victory is within 0.5 percentage points.
Trump called for an end to the recount even though state rules allow e******n officials to wait 10 days for absentee b****ts submitted by registered v**ers living outside the United States, including active-duty military personnel.
A machine recount began over the weekend in the race between outgoing Republican Florida Governor Rick Scott and Democratic U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, with another recount underway for the Florida gubernatorial race between Republican Ron DeSantis and Democrat Andrew Gillum.
Republicans are eager to cement victories in a key battleground state after maintaining their control of the U.S. Senate in last week’s midterm congressional e******ns, while Democrats are eyeing another possible state governorship win. Both parties accused the other of trying to subvert democracy.
Scott on Sunday had asked a Broward County judge to issue an emergency injunction calling for law enforcement to seize all v****g machines, tallying devices and b****ts when they are not being used until the end of the recount and any related litigation.
The judge rejected that request on Monday, according to Marc Elias, an attorney representing the Nelson campaign. The Scott campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Broward County Circuit Judge Jack Tuter urged both sides to be restrained in their public statements as the state faces a repeat of its dramatic role in the 2000 U.S. p**********l v**e recount.
“I am urging (the lawyers) to tamp down the rhetoric,” Tuter told a hearing, according to the Miami Herald. “We have to be careful about what we say.”------MORE----