Workers begin poll recount

The first election workers have begun the enormous task of recounting ballots in Florida’s bitterly close races for the US Senate and governor.

The move came after the secretary of state ordered a review of the two nationally watched contests.

Miami-dadecountyelection officials began feeding ballots into scanning machines on Saturday evening. The work in that one South Florida county alone could take days, considering some 800,000 ballots were cast.

The Florida secretary of state ordered the recounts on Saturday, an unprecedented step for the two flagship races.