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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...

Doubt the validity of their own vote? >> every vote that was cast legally will be put back through the machine, will be done with that tomorrow 3:00. >> harris: is there anything else coming? >> it will go to a manual recount after that. tomorrow, bill nelson will have a decision to make. hes been in politics since i was two years old. hes done a lot of things hes proud of and he did has to decide if he has to end his career with something hes not proud of, to drag the state longer through that ...

Ballots that havent been properly counted that it wont change the outcome given the margin right now. >> thats exactly right. honestly, when you talk to republicans and democrats privately, they are very clear eyed about that prospect. there still needs to be some sort of massive issue with this vote counting process that we have yet to uncover. theres the possibility in a broward county where there was a certain number of under votes and over votes that werent attributed to the senate race. per...

Will that be determined in broward county or is that a question if you have paper ballots and say the machine didnt count it. will that end up back in court? >> i think what i can see in court is the deadline. once this deadline for the machine count comes thursday, they have so little time to do the hand recounts of the votes on the ballots that are undervoted or overvoted. a bunch of them are bumping up against that deadline and its a big fight like 2000 was in terms of should the counting con...

Ron desantis in tallahassee and he said that his race would end not only with this machine count, and mandated by law, but he is here setting up the transition offices what he said to me last night. but in the recount, i wanted to mention in leon county here in tall the has si, they have 6,000 votes left to count, and this is what the recount process should look like, and you can see it in the machines behind me, and they are reloading the particular machine, but two boxes that the ballots are s...

The votes, which was interesting. we havent seen proof of that. mark preston, thank you so much. the recount clash in florida is topping our look at todays political hot topics. we have david here with the headlines. this is a mess. what is your take on it. >> its just florida. we should note here, this is the law in florida. this is not some abnormal thing. this is triggered because it is the law in florida that if two candidates are within a half percent of each other, a recount is triggered. ...

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...

Florida ordered machines early in anticipation of a recount in order to get it done, we dont understand why broward county continues to be dysfunctional. >> harris: if we dont have an idea of the initial vote count from machines, and thats what we are being told, they want to triangulate the facts to figure out where we are without having to hear from brenda snipes necessarily to see how many original votes there were. if we dont have that number, how do we even know after the deadline if they g...

Have a clear path to a statewide recount and the machine count will happen and manual recount will almost assuresly happen. >> yes, it can potentially go to the manual. a lot of politicians weighing in including the president who called this a fraud. here is what minority leader chuck schumer had to say today. >> saying its going too slowly is one thing. saying you have concerns about how legitimate the count is another. no one said there is any fraud here. the paramount issue here, the paramoun...

Within one half of one percent. an incredibly tight race in florida. what does that mean? the machine count recount could begin as soon as this afternoon in some counties. it will be done on a county by county basis. and they need to have it wrapped up by next thursday. they will assess to see if any of these races fall within a quarter of a percent. if that happens, there will be a hand recount of the undervotes and overvotes in each of these races before a winner is ultimately decided. fred, a...