The Florida recount has the final countdown. Vote totals must be in by 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time Thursday afternoon.

As USA Today reports, it isn't likely all votes will be counted on time, which is why a request has been made to extend the deadline. Democratic Senator Bill Nelson's campaign issued the extension request due to the tight margins in his Senate race against his Republican opponent, Governor Rick Scott.

However, according to The Hill, a judge has denied the request. All 67 of Florida's counties must report their recount results by the deadline.

Most counties believe they will be able to complete their recounts by then, but Palm Beach County has publicly stated it will probably fail to do so. Officials in the county, one of the state's largest, claim faulty equipment has made the recount difficult. A spokesperson said election officials there are in "prayer mode."

U.S. District Judge Mark Walker ruled Palm Beach and any other county struggling will have to figure it out. He said he couldn't “fashion a remedy in the dark," and since election officials in Palm Beach weren't able to give him a hard timeline as to when they could finish, they'd have to do their best with the time left.

"We’re going to give it our best shot, but the reality is that we were very close two nights ago, and then our machines went down," said Palm Beach elections supervisor Susan Bucher. "It was not for lack of human effort. The human effort was there.”

Despite this setback for voters in Palm Beach, Walker ruled voters throughout the state whose ballots were rejected due to signatures that didn't match their state records deserve additional time to resubmit updated signatures. Voters with rejected ballots were given until 5 p.m. Saturday to verify their ballots at their respective local election offices.

The race may not end Thursday, however. Should the machine recount find candidates separated by a margin of 0.25 percent or less, a hand recount must be done by state law. USA Today reports this is expected to be the case, meaning voters likely won't know who their new government representatives will be until the hand recount deadline on November 18.

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