Recounts transcend winners and losers in fights to change election laws
by Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times
Nov 17, 2018
4 minutes
WASHINGTON - By the time the Florida recount stretched into this weekend, there was little hope that Democrat Andrew Gillum would eke out victory win in the state's election for governor, but the campaign was no longer about that.
In the new political landscape, recount battles are being waged with fervor as political parties and activists look beyond the race at hand and see opportunities to reform voting laws, change the political map and motivate and focus the base. There can be victory - and considerable campaign cash - even in losing.
"Both parties have assembled these armies, and elections have turned into wars to
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