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>> and to complicate things even normal-thinking people, not the tinfoil hat brigade, the sense more, a federal judge ruled is that all the ballots will, in earlier about 4,000 rejected fact, be counted. mail ballots can be counted. a judge just extended and the deadline for that is allowed votes whose signatures saturday, 5:00 p.m. did not match up so they were a reminder, now, of where those disregarded, just allowed people races stand. an extended deadline until at last count, rick scott has ...

Were now, you know, facing whats about to happen in georgia and whats about to happen in florida in terms of these deadlines and the resolution of these fights, with the vote counts being what they are, with the protests being what they are, with the strategic arsenal being what it is on the republican side, where theyre flat out saying theyre not going to accept it if the democrats turn out to be the winners here. given that thats where things are now, what do you think democrats should do over...

Republican women with fewer women as candidates and office holders republicans risk further its tdeadline day in widening a gender gap at a historic level since far more florida. a federal judge ruled this women vote democrat than morning that voters whose mail in and provisional ballots were republican. liz chaney is one of the women rejected because of issues with who is stepping out into the spotlight. she was very direct, more direct that signature will have until than some of the other le...

That you mail in to authorities many must match the signature you had when you registered to vote. democrats argue that that standard doesnt work and there are a lot of votes that should be counted that arent counted as a result. jake, this is an example of lawsuits that are specifically designed to essentially find more votes for bill nelson who currently trails by about 12,000 votes in this race, behind governor rick scott who is the republican. and this is important because this re-count proc...

Hes up on capitol hill the senate majority office. its stunning, hes not yet the senator. it happen been certified, why is he doing the victory dance before the dance is over? >> there is no doubt, he is the senator. the voters chose him by a margin of the vote. a third of the counties completed their machine recount. thus far with a third of the vote being completed, more than half the counties, actually the vet has changed a net toeth total 33 votes after 37 county versus completed their machi...

Lawsuits that are specifically designed to essentially find more votes for bill nelson, who currently trails by about 12,000 votes in this race, behind governor rick scott who is the republican. and this is important because this re-count process is playing out as you mention. they have to finish the machine re-count by thursday. if the margin remains less than a quarter of a percent, which it is expected to do so, theyll move to a hand re-count of the under-votes and over-votes. this process pl...

Full day of vote recounting in those contests, and there is still a lot of action away from the ballot boxes in various florida courtrooms. corresponded doug mckelway staying on top of all of it from the state capital of tallahassee tonight. good evening, doug. >> good evening, bret. 44 of 67 counties had completed their machine recount. of the 23 remaining counties, only one of them, palm beach county is not expected to meet the deadline. governor rick scott trying to make himself comfortable i...

Mechanics. this is not the way things should be. and lets see if they learn their lesson finally in developing a system that actually works for the people of florida. >> let me say this. obviously the machine -- >> bill: whats the rub 18 years later? >> the machines shouldnt have broken down. they are following the law. there is a .5 that there should be a machine recount. that is what is happening. in the senate race were at .25. a hand ballot recount where we are. >> im talking about how you g...

The history. its deeply concerning that they are not following the law. we have every legal vote that was cast in a timely fashion to vote. and heres one more vote, what will happen after the machine recount is any race in the state that was less than a quarter of one point which will be the senate race and the agriculture race, and that will be over votes and under votes. the canvassing board, if the accounting teams dont do it, i have to down and determine if the voter did or not. the mark her...

Midmorning. at that point the lawyers here believe it will head for a narrow margin, still going to head for a recount, they are preparing for that year. harris? >> harris: all right, griff jenkins, thank you very much. meanwhile, brad todd, senior advisor for governor rick scott. boy, your life has been interesting recently, i would imagine. first question out of the gate, how far along are they and what are you learning from the recount? >> 37 out of 67 counties in florida have completed their...