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He will be the governor of the next state of florida. and my sources tonight say rick scott has picked up a lot of votes in the recounts. in the senate race, the chaos continues after a machine recount. rick scott remains way ahead having picked up in fact some boats, palm beach county once again failed to meet a statutory deadline. so the original results in the county stand. but a hand count of thousands of contested or faulty ballots, and that means they are supposed to fill in the oval and t...

After a judge ordered it in that razor close matchup between governor rick scott and bill nelson. counties all ais kro the stacro are racing to finish this thing up. look at how close this is. rick scott leads by 12,603 votes. but then you have the governors race. no hand count ordered there which keeps our apparent winner. the opponent is not conceding. were in broward county, florida. so kerry, explain how this hand count works and whether they can meet this sunday noon deadline. >> well, im g...

If your grandmother didnt bring her glasses and she circled in the bubble not exactly right next to her name, a hand count can show you. and like mark was saying with the signature, if you leave out your middle initial your ballot could count. if were see your about making sure one of the most basic rights given to us is honor then we should do the hand count. >> how can i dispute that? in this case the democrats are going to the court. last time it was it was republicans who went to the supreme...

Machines broke down. were told that they will be moment care about how the people are taken care of. submitting a report to the >> gloria borger, thank you very secretary of state explaining what happened here. much. >> reporter: sure. brooke, keep in mind now that >> the judge making a new move theyve missed this deadline, its not the end. if one of these three races or any of these three races fall in cnn as ys lawsuit against t within that .25 margin, that white house. and two navy seals and ...

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Are standing by. so call now. >> neil: its hard to build this up. its tension you can cut with a knife. in palm beach county, theyre done counting votes here. the hand count now ensues. the lawsuits are piling up. how palm beach county deals with that after this. embrace the chance of 100% clear skin with taltz, the first and only treatment of its kind offering people with moderate to severe psoriasis a chance at 100% clear skin. with taltz, up to 90% of people quickly saw a significant improvem...

We believe this process will go forward in the proper fashion. >> shannon: an arbitrary deadline? why not change it? >> there is nothing arbitrary about the deadline. the entire structure and sort election law was put in place after the 2000 recount to try to address some of the issues, but the truce truth is there is a d deadline required by law, not just for this recount, but for any election in florida. there is a hard deadline for any potential hand count. andy hardy deadline for certified. ...

Battle or agricultural commissioner battle. and then we have the 4,000 absentee ballots where they have to verify signatures. i know theres going to be a hand count as well. a lot of things have to go senator nelsons way even if he got all of those ballots that -- whose signatures that are being checked, it wouldnt be enough to close the gap at this point. >> well, look, its not a question right now of what will the ultimate outcome be. this is a question of process. the whole idea is we want to...

Anyway saying, breaking, weve sued palm beach county to require a hand count of old ballots in the county due to systematic machine failure during the recount. nelson sits in second place right now, but he is leading with lawsuits filed. his campaign has filed eight, rick scott has filed six. they want him to follow up on reports that some democrats tried to encourage voters to send in ballots for two days after the election. the rubble can campaign manager says in a statement, bill nelson can s...

To sue palm beach county for halting what was a machine count, recount. now its down to handwritten recounts. they take all of them by hand and count them for the state. none of these numbers have changed in this process. if anything, rick scott slightly widened his lead. would you advise bill nelson to give up or let the process work its way? >> i think the way their code is written, when the closeness is of the race is as close as it is, its a mandatory recount. i could with wrong. >> neil: yo...