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Votes than you absolutely need? and while were watching the pictures, one of the question marks has been the intermixing of ballots and these reports that ballots that were deemed valid and votes that were provisional and questioned had been intermixed. once theyd been intermixed, you cant unmix them. >> no, and thats the problem. you have either fraud or incompetence. leland: or willful incompetence that turns into fraud. >> the elected commissioner has been rebuked for destroying ballots, misp...

Inco incompete incompetent, but its intentional incompetence. and the votes were supposed to be certified. theyre still coming in and he wants to know and expressed very, very loudly to the election officials, why do the ballots keep coming in? and meanwhile, outside here, you can see people continuing to stand off, all very calm and peaceful right now. if it changes in any way, shape, or form well get back to you, gillian, back to you. >> thanks for that, doug. leland. leland: all right. back t...

In, saying you have to update people almost real-time as to whats out there. it causes people to wonder whats going on. leland: when youre hearing at least from republican politicians, rick scott, matt geist, theyre saying broward is looking to steal the election. fair to say at the very least its incompetence. >> i think weve improved a lot since florida 2000. theres been a lot of improvements in the system. its a complicated system. the fact that they couldnt put out regular reports about wher...

Ballots out there. ballots post marked by election day and received by friday must be accepted. and our team will continue to take legal action as necessary, until ever eligible vote is counted and on thursday kemp defended his decision to move ahead with his transition. >> we thought it was going to be closer to 22,000 so the number is actually lower on the number of provisional ballots. even if she got 1 #00% of those votes. we still win with a 50% plus one vote majority. actually its much mor...

Signature on outside of your ballot to your voter file you have no chance to fix that. in a liberal or democratic county theyre letting you show up to the county reporters office correct your signature long after voting has stopped. i want to be cleared with that, your fine with any rule as long as its applied to all the voters across the state uniformly. >> even with this agreement, the secretary of states office says only around 10,000 ballots will be affected. the campaign manager andrew piat...

Deinvolve into fisticuffs or anything of that sort. and this might cool tempers, but if people are armed they have a little more confidence in their ultimate power. so ill see where things head from here. a lot of shouting matches and getting in your face. thats the extent of it. inside the board is where the canvassing is happening and controversy continues, even at this hour. 20 discarded illegal ballots found among the certified provisional ballots according to the miami herald just last nigh...

Ballots mysteriously being found in broward county. this is one of the most democratically heavy areas of southeast florida, gillian, and we saw counterprotesters and accusations of everything from gross incompetence of the elections board there to allegations of outright fraud as it exists there and discussions about ballots that were valid being mixed in with ballots that were perhaps questionable and now counting all of them. the big question, big picture is whether this is going to make a bi...

The senate races down there that were watching most closely. florida is one of several states where the midterm election results are still too close to call. with that we bring in john f. ordiy. well get to arizona and georgia in a minute. seems almost certain well have a recount in florida. >> if youre below a half a percentage point with a machine recount, -- leland: we could have magnifying glasses and all sorts of fun. the woman from broward county decided not to come talk to us. she seemed ...

Leland: brad, thank you very much. good to see you. gillian. >> thanks. there are other high stakes races that remain at this hour. and garrett tenney how those are counted. >> arizona senate race is one of the most important in the balance of power on capitol hill. on election night, the republican had a slight lead over the democrat. and now counting the votes, there was a 20,000 lead. 15 counties until wednesday to address problems with ballots and that came after allegations the democrats we...

Wasnt supposed to, it raises a lot of questions beyond just not being trans. >> transparent.>> i think they e followed the law. leland: thats standard, right? >> the court said you have to do that, you have to show us whats there. thrill with be things that are delayed. we understand that. if you dont give an accounting of it, it raises questions for people. leland: the tightest of the races is rick scott, bill nelson, about 14, 5 right now, 14,500 votes. as with we head to the secretary of stat...