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Were not going to let these liberal activists from all over the country come down here and say were going to steal this election from somebody that, you know, were going to follow the will of the people in this state. were going to work hard every day and win this. >> sean: so there will be an investigation. this will go on but youre saying by saturday you will be declared the winner? >> the first thing will be the certification based on information that comes from the local supervisor of electi...

Tighter in the senate race where it is now down to about 14, now 13,000 ballots between rick scott and bill nelson. gillian: thats right. the florida secretary of state, ken detner, ordered the recount just a little while ago. he determined that unofficial results in both races fell within that margin that by law triggers this recount. it will be a machine recount. from there well see whether this goes to a by hand recount. as we discussed earlier, leland, this is an issue that could be undecide...

Has to determine what the machines couldnt. if the machine says i cant figure out about one ballot, then it goes to the county board of elections to figure that out. and thats where we go back to 2000 to the magnifying glasses and the discussions of hanging chad and voter intent. that ended with a court order in 2000. gillian: after five weeks. we hope this time around theres a conclusion much sooner. theres a smaller number of votes than there are in a presidential election. thats one thing flo...

Ballots mysteriously being found in broward county. this is one of the most democratically heavy areas of southeast florida, gillian, and we saw counterprotesters and accusations of everything from gross incompetence of the elections board there to allegations of outright fraud as it exists there and discussions about ballots that were valid being mixed in with ballots that were perhaps questionable and now counting all of them. the big question, big picture is whether this is going to make a bi...

The secretary of state will add up the numbers and if any race is decided by a margin of less than a half percent as appears to be the case in the senate and governors race, then they will automatically be ordered for a mandatory machine recount. and most counties we spoke with today intend to do that as soon as the order comes in tomorrow afternoon. >> governor? >> so phil, you thought the elections were over and you were going to have a nice, calm weekend. boy, were you ever wrong, right? >> i...

The senate races down there that were watching most closely. florida is one of several states where the midterm election results are still too close to call. with that we bring in john f. ordiy. well get to arizona and georgia in a minute. seems almost certain well have a recount in florida. >> if youre below a half a percentage point with a machine recount, -- leland: we could have magnifying glasses and all sorts of fun. the woman from broward county decided not to come talk to us. she seemed ...

Is going to be by machine, it has to be completed by this coming thursday, now, if the margin of difference between any two of the candidates in that machine recount is less than 1 quarter of 1%, then it goes to a hand count, now, while all of that is going on, the board of -- the supervisor of elections here is defending itself against all kinds of allegations of corruption and criminal activity, listen up. >> allegations of fraud, those are serious charges to throw out there, theres no basis f...

Her in office, anybody who messed up as many times as she had would have been normally removed from her job. arthel: listen, we will keep shot up here, what we are looking at here live pictures there in florida, brenda snipes is on the left-hand side of your screen there and they are working, the workers are prepping the machines to be recalibrated for, you know, machine recount, so -- here we are again. i just dont understand why we are here again and, you know, at this point -- and i keep repe...

Were not going to let these liberal activists from all over the country come down here and say were going to steal this election from somebody that, you know, were going to follow the will of the people in this state. were going to work hard every day and win this. >> sean: so there will be an investigation. this will go on but youre saying by saturday you will be declared the winner? >> the first thing will be the certification based on information that comes from the local supervisor of electi...

Were not going to let these liberal activists from all over the country come down here and say were going to steal this election from somebody that, you know, were going to follow the will of the people in this state. were going to work hard every day and win this. >> sean: so there will be an investigation. this will go on but youre saying by saturday you will be declared the winner? >> the first thing will be the certification based on information that comes from the local supervisor of electi...