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Located here on the ballot. so if it is a machine error like the nelson camp is talking about, you are talking about a major development that could eat significantly, maybe entirely, into that lead that rick scott has right now. if it is a ballot design issue, a very different story. >> steve, maybe in time for our grandchildren someday, we will fix elections in this country and in all 50 states. we thank you so very much for starting us off at the big board, steve kornacki. lets bring in our ...

Here. 26,000 fewer votes were cast in the senate race than in the governors race here. that is a disparate not even approached in any other county in the state. something is up in broward. the nelson campaign is saying this is a machine reading issue, that there are tens of thousands of votes that nelsons probably winning disproportionately. a manual recount if thats the case would catch that, but the other possibility here is that the design of the ballot played a role here. the design of this ...

Supervisors building -- >> fake news, fake news. >> we see energy including some people around here tonight.lu but the recounts are continuing. so what you basically have is a process somewhere, the machine counting is going to continue until thursday. and if the deadline thursday shows that it is within a quarter point, then you get into that manual recount, which is t even more crucial, chris.s >> so youve got the automatic recount mandated by the state thats happening in all the counties righ...

26,000 fewer votes were cast in the senate race than in the governors race here. that is a disparate not even approached in any other county in the state. something is up in broward. the nelson campaign is saying this is a machine reading issue, that there are tens of thousands of votes that nelsons probably winning disproportionately. a manual recount if thats the case would catch that, but the other possibility here is that the design of the ballot played a role here. the design of this ballot...

Beat with ari melber. im glad youre down there. what is the latest out of florida on the recount? >> the bottom line on the recount is the count is going on. so i was back behind me in that supervisors building -- >> fake news, fake news. >> we see energy including some people around here tonight. but the recounts are continuing. so what you basically have is a process somewhere, the machine counting is going to continue until thursday. and if the deadline thursday shows that it is within a quar...

Machine tabuilatilations are re it will be a problem with the machines. there will be plenty of time to figure out what the ballot situation was. for now we just need to count the votes like democratic and republican governors are still doing. only here is our governor abusing his power and trying to prevent all of the votes from being counted. >> maybe it is a machine error and those votes do end up materializing, then that would be a huge deal and then that race would be even closer. maybe tha...

Know or youre not telling how many ballots are out there and that sent up red flares for republicans who thought this was the beginning of an effort to change the vote. >> harris: what congressmen matt gaetz told me on friday when the news was breaking, what he said was you need that certain number that the machines give you so you know what you are tallying against. if you know 100 and you will know you only have a stack of 50, you know youve got a problem because the machine is already counted...

We havent seen a lot of numbers of that size. just raw vote total overturned. it sounds like youre saying, yeah, thats true. but given that possible nature of some of the error here, these recounts are worthwhile and these issues need to be investigated. >> and thats why the broward warning, that broward issue is so important here because thats true, yes. in general, the recounts report going to -- 35,000 usually isnt going to come down to zero in a recount. if you have an issue where one side i...

Something happened to cause the undervote. the nelson campaign is insisting this is a machine error. i can put this up on the screen for you. the ballot. the nelson campaign is insisting is this a machine error and that when you have this manual recount, it will be caught. but i want to point out what the broward ballot looks like and where they place the senate race. look at this, this is the senate race. is th this is a lengthy column of instructions and this is the race for congress, a bunch ...

Think focus may come to in the next few days is what happened with what they call the undervote in broward county. about 26,000 viewer votes were cast in the race for senate than in the race for governor. you dont see a discrepancy like this in any other county in florida. its clear something is up there. the question is, and i think its critical, the nelson campaign contends its a machine error. and if thats true, then there are tens of thousands of ballots in a heavily democratic county that h...