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Election chief, brenda snipes? whats her story and might she step down? >> yes, brenda snipes spoke today for reporters. shes overseeing this recount process in broward. there were two noteworthy pieces of information that came out of that meeting with reporters. first, she seems very confident theyre going to get the recounting process done in time. they did not start the counting process until much later than other counties of similar size. then she was specifically asked about how long she pl...

Remains very interested in this race. tweeting about it for the second day in a row. calling on nelson to concede and still hinting that the recount process could be tainted. to be clear, theres been no direct evidence of any attempt to purposely corrupt the counting process. but republicans continue to hammer at the nelson teams legal approach to the issue, calling it desperate, and calling for nelson to accept his loss gracefully. >> and he wants to shine a light on the noncompliance with flor...

>> im simply here to say that for the votes that have been cast, they ought to be counted. every last single one of them. >> reporter: and the republican candidate, ron desantis, casting himself as governor-elect, staying above the fray, making only one taped public statement and not appearing in public since election night. and about all these new ballots that republicans claim were found in broward county between election night and that final vote count on saturday. rick scott, the governor, w...

Overall recount. fred? >> so ryan, is there a reason? in five days, they cannot do the recount, but the numbers that they did tabulate, that took place in less than five days, did it not, after election day on tuesday? >> reporter: right. great question, fred. the answer to that is that the recount process is much different than the original counting process. thats because you need to segregate each one of these races from all of the other races that took place on election night. in this case, t...

Now there are reportedly thousands more votes. you are kidding, right? a primer. every county is supposed to hand in all early voting and absentee balance lots within 30 minutes of the polls closing. most of kansas city already count those ballots before election night. but now in a lawsuit brought against miss snipes, governor scott argues miss snipes is refusing to cooperate. the court ordered miss snipes to turn over record detailing how she counts ballots. snipes is refusing to turn over the...

Now there are reportedly thousands more votes. you are kidding, right? a primer. every county is supposed to hand in all early voting and absentee balance lots within 30 minutes of the polls closing. most of kansas city already count those ballots before election night. but now in a lawsuit brought against miss snipes, governor scott argues miss snipes is refusing to cooperate. the court ordered miss snipes to turn over record detailing how she counts ballots. snipes is refusing to turn over the...

Now there are reportedly thousands more votes. you are kidding, right? a primer. every county is supposed to hand in all early voting and absentee balance lots within 30 minutes of the polls closing. most of kansas city already count those ballots before election night. but now in a lawsuit brought against miss snipes, governor scott argues miss snipes is refusing to cooperate. the court ordered miss snipes to turn over record detailing how she counts ballots. snipes is refusing to turn over the...

We can all be taught like mr. rogers when were 8 years old, all taught how to vote, and everybody votes the same way. its all counted the same way. its all an paper, and theres no more of this crapola every election where were trying to figure out whats going on on tuesday on friday? your thoughts is it ever going to happen? >> if only we could have one machine and one uniform system countrywide, it would certainly make things more efficient. look, the florida law gives supervisors of elections,...

The people of the state of florida do their job, count every single vote, make sure theres transparency and we get to the bottom of it. arthel: josé, really this is such a wonderful, wonderful freedom that we have here in america and you want every vote to be counted fairly fair and square so im going let you wrap up with this, john, you know does it help and does it, you know, or hinder voter confidence when you have someone like the president and like the governor of florida who is running to...

Process by which votes get counted in florida, and its playing out into a recount now. look, also, this is a very close race. these kinds of things dont happen when theres hundreds of thousands of votes separating the two contestants. thats not the case in this instance. thats why youre seeing so much friction and so much anger over this particular counting process, is that usually you dont have to have this kind of discussion over recount. jon: allen dershowitz was on "fox & friends" this morni...