Broward County finished recounting ballots in three top Florida races Thursday, with few changes in the totals that would significantly alter the leads reported by the state Saturday. 

The county completed its recount in the Senate, governor and agriculture commissioner races 14 minutes before the state-mandated 3 p.m. Thursday deadline, despite doubts earlier in the week that it would be able to do so.

The original results released Saturday in the Senate race showed Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson with 471,334 votes in Broward, compared to Republican Gov. Rick Scott's 211,119. After the recount both candidates lost votes — Nelson had 469,949 votes and Scott had 210,513 votes.

Both counts gave Nelson about 69 percent of the vote, marking no real change for the senator who hopes to overcome Scott's statewide lead of about 12,500 votes.

The vote totals dropped Thursday because Broward continues to review a couple of thousand ballots that were damaged and had to be copied. They will be reviewed and reported later by the county's canvassing board.

The recount results also show about 23,000 undervotes in the Senate race, meaning fewer ballots were cast in that race than the governor's race. That's about the same number of undervotes identified in Saturday's results.

Nelson's lawyers have argued that they believed the machine recount just completed would reveal a significant number of votes for the Democrat that were missed when the ballots first went through before and on Election Day. But the recount didn't appear to produce those.

In the governor's race, Democrat Andrew Gillum had 481,677 votes in Broward, compared to Ron DeSantis’ 221,873 votes, according to Saturday's results. After the recount finished Thursday, Gillum had 480,304 votes and DeSantis had 221,252.

In the race for commissioner of agriculture, Democrat Nikki Fried had 478,829 votes, compared to Matt Caldwell’s 213,938 votes, according to Saturday's results. After Thursday’s recount, Fried had 477,448 votes and Caldwell had 213,322.

Again, very little change in the totals for the candidates.

The majority of the recount was completed around 1 a.m. Thursday. Workers spent the rest of the day duplicating and counting just under 400 ballots.