Page 13 - Machine Recount News Today

But we begin with the news of the day, florida election officials in the sunshine state trying to meet a hard deadline this thursday for a machine recount. you are watching it, they are counting ballots in the senate and governor races, broward county which has been at the century of much of the recount, all the drama began a machine recount a short time ago. a controversial election supervisor brenda snipes says they will finish on time. as you know, there have been lawsuits, accusations, and f...

Ballots. and astonishingly, tens and thousands of ballots suddenly and magically materialize out of nowhere with no proper accounting, no chain of custody. we have no idea when these ballots were casted and by whom. this has got the nefarious look of corruption written all over it. im not saying that fraud was perpetrated. but it does need to be investigated given her track record. >> sean: lets look at two specific issues moving forward. we have two different recounts going on. two difference t...

Palm beach county, susan bucher, who is the elections supervisor there said the following about the thursday 3:00 p.m. deadline. this is palm beach county. she said our equipment is not designed to meet the deadline and we been complaining to the state for almost ten years and they never extended the deadline. well give it our best shot effort but what we need to do is machine recount all of our ballots to find the over and under votes. and then she said she didnt know whether she thought they w...

Ballot boxes. theres a lot of reasons to be disgusted by this process but 0 evidence of fraud. >> is more about incompetence than willful misconduct? >> somebody who lives in broward county for a very long time, has been through the process, it is totally embarrassing to anybody who lives here is that we are always the focus of attention but i want to make sure viewers understand the recount is a machine recount that is statutory compared to what it was in 2000, this is a statutory mandate, it n...

Palm beach county -- elizabeth, lets go to you. susan bucher who is the election supervisors there said the following about the thursday 3:00 p.m. deadline. this is palm beach county. she said our equipment is not designed to meet the deadline and we been complaining to the state for almost ten years and they never extended the deadline. we will give it our best shot effort but what we need to do is machine recount all of our ballots to find the over and under votes. and then she said she didnt ...

In this race was republicans sounding the alarm over floridas recount due to the large number of ballots discovered after the polls closed. jillian: it is not surprising the questions are being raised by others outside the state as well. >> when we say they mix provisional ballots they had gone through to determine what they want to accept or reject and after that jumble them together saying we got it mixed up and dont know which is which. it is an example of the kind of letters we have seen not...

And last year, i earned $36,000 in cash back. which i used to offer health insurance to my employees. whats in your wallet? ♪ >> determine which ones they want to accept and which ones they wanted to reject and after that jumble some of them together oops we got them mixed up. its an example of the kind of blunders we have seen not just this year but in years prior. when you combine that with broward county election managers saying they didnt know or wouldnt say how many ballots they still hav...

Recently this afternoon and said she thinks they will meet that deadline. theyve been working 24 hours, around the clock. she said people are coming in on 12-hour shifts. they are working 24 hours a day, making sure that really large county can get all of their votes counted, at least by machine, to meet that thursday 3:00 p.m. deadline. so what happens when a county meets it? im here in leon county. if you see around me, its pretty quiet. thats because all the worrying that weve been hearing th...

With the bill nelson race. rick scott leading going into the recount. the outstanding ballot issue weve been talking about. into are floor still uncalled and also mississippi. of course mississippi now heading into that runoff. scott ahead here and mississippi typically a republican state. theyre sitting at 51 and there are on the board at least two possibilities for democrats to increase from 47. >> steve kornacki, thanks for that breakdown. lets talk about one of those states thats right in th...

Candidates name. thats what an under vote is. all of thats important because as we hit thursday and move on to the next round of recounting, its all done by hand. thats where the nelson folks think theyre going to pick up some morargins, especially in broward county, where they saw a sizable under vote. >> lets pan back to those under and over votes, ali. how much do you think there are at that county youre in right now? give us a guesstimate. >> reporter: well, the guesstimate, just based on wh...