Democrat Nikki Fried is elected Florida Agriculture Commissioner.
TALLAHASSEE
Florida’s last statewide race to be called is over.
After grueling machine and manual recounts for the razor-thin race, Nicole “Nikki” Fried emerged victorious in the contest to replace term-limited Adam Putnam by just 6,753 votes — a margin of .08 percent.
Her opponent, state Rep. Matt Caldwell, conceded in a letter to voters and a letter to Secretary of State Ken Detzner on Monday afternoon.
Caldwell, the only statewide GOP candidate to lose, was ahead of Fried by about half of 1 percent on election night, which triggered a state law requiring two recounts: one by machine, one by hand.
He writes that his loss was a result of the “abject failures” in Broward and Palm Beach counties, and that he would not pursue further legal action.
Caldwell filed a lawsuit in Broward County earlier last week, asking the court to determine whether Brenda Snipes, the Broward County supervisor of elections, “illegally included ballots after polls closed” Nov. 6. His campaign also filed a public-records request for vote counts and emails among Snipes, her team and any third parties regarding ballot-counting.
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