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Unlikely a manual recount is going to reap any kind of shift of that magnitude. so it really comes down to that under vote in broward county. is there something to it with this machine issue or is it what it looks like it really might be, and that is ballot design and a small but significant chunk of voters in broward not seeing the race on their ballot, brian. >> unbelievable. some day maybe well fix our elections. in the meantime, the midterm goes on. steve kornacki at the big board tonight. o...

Changed in the machine recount. unlikely a manual recount is going to reap any kind of shift of that magnitude. so it really comes down to that under vote in broward county. is there something to it with this machine issue or is it what it looks like it really might be, and that is ballot design and a small but significant chunk of voters in broward not seeing the race on their ballot, brian. >> unbelievable. some day maybe well fix our elections. in the meantime, the midterm goes on. steve korn...

Which as you know that is going to happen, that will reveal nelson will get upwards of 10,000 more votes and it could reverse the statewide outcome. if they are wrong, though, if it is that design issue we talked about, bill nelson is plum out of luck it would look like, his gap here statewide, 12,600 votes now and change. the idea of that changing clearly, you saw how little it changed in the machine recount. unlikely a manual recount is going to reap any kind of shift of that magnitude. so it ...

Blank. and the question is why in a county that bill nelson is getting 70% of the vote. in the nelson campaign says its a machine issue. they were feeding them into machines. it was for some reason missing all the sfroerts the senate. well, if there is a manual recount. that will find that and they will find tens of thousands of ballots with names checked off in senate race. theyll add them. potentially looking at how the vote is going in this county, potentially you could be talking about a net...

That left that senate contest blank. and the question is why in a county that bill nelson is getting 70% of the vote. in the nelson campaign says its a machine issue. they were feeding them into machines. it was for some reason missing all the seats from the senate. well, if there is a manual recount. that will find that and they will find tens of thousands of ballots with names checked off in senate race. theyll add them. potentially looking at how the vote is going in this county, potentially ...

Massive county. bill nelson got most of the vote here. the issue here in broward county was you had an extraordinary number of undervotes, votes that were cast for governor but were not cast for senate. there were about 26,000 ballots that left that senate contest blank. and the question is why in a county that bill nelson is getting 70% of the vote in. the nelson campaign says its a machine issue. they were feeding it in the machines and it was somehow missing all these votes from the senate. i...

Broward stands out. the number is massive in broward. how massive? 25,000. there were 25,000 fewer votes cast in the senate race in broward than in the governors race. they got the same ballot. you dont see anything like that in any other county. the nelson campaign, their lawyer, suggested this is a machine issue. if theres manual recount and a machine issue, the manual recount would catch that. ballot design may be the other culprit here. this is the broward county ballot that went out. you ca...

I dont think theyll win in trying to complain with a machine. i dont know how a guy with mow money, no brains and no campaign won. go figure. i can have a health plan with more intelligence. what a mess for them. >> i kind of wish we lived in a world where it was so obviously observed that an unemployed vet could run and get the primary. but this machine issue is a serious issue, and it didnt just come up now and its been raised in south carolina and around the country on every election cycle. i...