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What youre saying about process, a very good point, but a lot of people are looking, what will change in this process as it moves to the hand count and verifying signatures and all that? theyre saying at least in their county that the numbers have not starkly moved one way or the other. then it gets to the hand we count. assuming that doesnt change, the final numbers come in statewide by november 20th when all this has to be finalized, right? >> thats correct. in my experience, having handled a ...

We believe this process will move forward in a proper fashion. >> an arbitrary deadline, why not change it? >> theres nothing arbitrary about the deadline. the structure of florida election law was put in place after the 2000 recount to address these issues. there is a hard deadline required by law, not just for this recount but any election in florida. there is a hard deadline for any potential hand count and a hard deadline, they are not arbitrary, they need to be met. >> i want to play someth...

To ask questions is completely fair. >> dagen: you go into a tricky area when you get to a hand count, as well. harris was talking about the under vote. 25,000 more votes were cast for governor than senate. the senate in the state, and marc elias, we remember him for fusion gps for the hillary clinton campaign. hes representing one of the lawyers representing senator bill nelson. they are anxious to get to that hand recount, where you can look at those under votes like "oh, you can go through ba...

The big thing to watch for, bill, is if they meet that deadline on the recount on thursday, we still expect there will likely be a margin of error under 2.25% to get us to the hand count and it gets really interesting yes. >> bill: good to have you down there in southeast florida. >> sandra: house minority leader nancy pelosi making gender part of her pitch to reclaim the speakers gavel. pelosi arguing democrats shouldnt get rid of the only woman at their leadership table. after a historic run f...

On what it means that nelson is asking for more time? >> thanks for having me. obviously the recount process is under way. i think at least 25 counties now have completed their recounts for the second unofficial returns which are due thursday at 3:00 p.m. obviously there are some counties like broward and palm beach that are having more issues as youre probably aware. thats something that remains to be seen, if theyll meet those deadlines, the palm beach county supervisor of elections has expres...

We are going to let this process play out. >> thats a very important reality check, jessica dean. thank you so much. its a monumental task rekoupding 8.5 million votes. the initial recount triggered by florida law is being done by machine. that could lead to a manual hand count of votes. i want to get more on how this arduous process is playing out. we have cnn analyst mark preston to tell us about that. officials are scrambling to get this done. tell us about whats happening right now and when ...

County, they say theyll be able to get to that deadline. however, theyll only be able to get to the deadline on the senate race. you may be wondering why they cant get their act together. what happens. the deadline is 3:00 p.m. theres a hand count that will be reordered if the margin in any of these races is less than 0.25%. all of them are less than 0.5%. thats why we have a machine recount. if its less than 0.25%, theyll do it by hand. again, the deadline is 3:00. go to the hand recouldnt. her...

Points, and thats really a large amount, 33,684. in the senate race we have a small smaller difference, its just .15 percentage points. a machinery count, which is what we are going through right now, we have a .41 and we will recount the ballots. what will happen that race if the race shows a margin under .25, then you have a hand count. >> go back to the machine. that is what is happening right now. we are in the middle of a machinery count. what if it is not completed by

Get a machinery recount and .25 its a hand count. its hard to get it done by thursday and thats why broward is working all night. theres no discretion. elections within those percentages get those recounts. >> governor scott is going full fraud. hes decided already before waiting for the recount, hes accusing his opponent without any evidence whatsoever of committing fraud. the interesting thing is theres evidence of incompetent, and theres evidence that something was done in a shotty fashion, b...

Sunday afternoon. and some of these counties are saying they cant do that, hugo. >> youre right. 3:00 p.m. for a machine count. if that reduces the margin to less than a quarter percent it is meant to go to a hand count. the suggestion that its impossible to do this is another way of muddying the waters. it is weird these places which have a history of not getting elections right somehow are incapable of doing what the rest of the country does and the rest of the state does. it will go to a hand...