It has been nearly three days since President Obama has been declared victorious over GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, but on one state, the race is not yet over.
In Florida, the race to the White House has not been called because too few votes separate the candidates.
Several counties have yet to finish counting absentee ballots - the reason why the declaration has been delayed.
Miami-Dade and Broward Counties have finished counting their ballots, according to a Miami Herald report.
"The last-minute surge of some 54,000 absentees cast up until the closing of the polls on Election Day caused an extraordinary delay in tabulating the final results," The Miami Herald reported. "Elections workers counted about 31,750 absentee votes on Wednesday and Thursday alone. In total, Miami-Dade voters cast more than 242,000 absentee ballots. Officials said Thursday they could not provide information on the number of rejected absentees."
In 2004, President George Bush won Florida by 537 votes.
While the election results in Florida have not yet been certified, the New York Times have reported that 100 percent of the precincts have been reported - President Obama has 4,169,972 or 49.9 percent of the votes and Romney has 4,117,602 or 49.3 percent of the votes.
Unofficial results from the Florida Division of Elections, 8,400,509 votes were cast in the state and so far, Romney has 4,133,803 votes and the president has 4,194,552.
If Obama wins Florida's 29 electoral votes, he would increase his victory margin in the Electoral College to 332 to Romney's 206.
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