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Machine recount that may or may not change much, but then an automatic hand recount because its a quarter of 1%. thats where were in lord knows what, never neverland of florida recounts. >> im going to take that to the bank. thats exactly what courts will be saying. congressman, you mentioned rick scott and what he talked about yesterday. he also talked, when he was making the statement, he was saying it in front of the governors mansion. this is another tricky spot that were finding ourselves i...

Homegrown killers are the problem. the question is when are we going to do something about it? we can talk more, but i have some breaking news i need to get to. were going to talk more about that later on. but lets get to those races in florida and arizona. the senate races. heres harry entin. hes here with more. i want to ask you about florida. it looks like both the senate and governors races could be headed to a recount here. good evening to you. >> good evening. i should point out theyre hea...

Between 2000 and now. in 2000, the recount was precipitated by the candidates who had to request them and got to select which counties they were entered the legislator as a result of 2000 has significantly changed florida statutes. the candidates really have nothing to do with it now, if the margin between the candidates is less than 0.5 percent, it is an automatic so-called machine recount, where they ballots are sent through the machines again. if it is less than 0.25 percent, then there is an...

>> we won. im going to be the u.s. senator. im going to fight this all the way. were going to do everything we can. we are looking at every legal remedy we can exercise. were going to fight this and were going to win. this. >> now, under florida law, any race with a margin of half a percent or less automatically goes to a machine recount. election attorney mike elias who is now representing bill nelson said. this you see it on our screen here. quote: we are doing this not just because its automa...

Of the voters in florida. >> floridas hotly contested senate race between rick scott, the governor and bill nelson shows a different of 15,000 votes. thats .18 of 1% destined for a recount. the latest numbers in the governors race show ron desantis now down to 36,000 votes over tallahassee mayor andrew gillum. that is .44% also in recount territory. state law dictates any election in florida where the margin of victory is under a half a percent automatically gets machine recounted. it takes the ...

Covering this race every hour it seemed there was a new court ruling and something was happening. speaking of concessions, andrew gillum the mayor of tallahassee who was a democrat in the governors race he gave a concession speech it sounded like it the other night but now it looks like you could be getting a recount as well. >> history does not repeat itself perhaps in florida but it does rhyme. al gore called george bush to concede and took that concession back as things got closer. right now,...

Look, some recounts are mandated, and they are in florida, and if the margins are close enough, republicans and democrats, they should both ensure that any recount is done fairly, no creating ballots where none existed. i have to say, it would hardly reassuring to learn today that in florida most populous county, broward, the elections of cheap there is a democrat named it brenda snipes brenda was found guilty of violating state and fg ballots in the 2016 congressional race when those ballots wh...

But he has tweeted that he wants every vote to count. >> bill nelson has brought in a high-powered democratic lawyer from washington, d.c., to oversee this recount. >> laura: while, enclosed and contentious race to democrats more so than republicans seem to have a problem conceding defeat. it cant be that the other guy won fair and square, it has to be that either the election system broke down or some mystery boats are hiding somewhere or the entire process must be tainted. then there is the ot...

This is the same shenanigans but the numbers are completely, completely different. brian: you look for machine recount and maybe a hand recount in the senate race. but in the end both will prevail that are on top right now. not if they find ballots which by the way there is no reason this should be delayed. >> absolutely not. but, again, its the -- out of 67 counties in florida, its always the two democratic strongholds that seem to hold the keys to the democratic victories. they never work out....

>> in florida where im from so i remember covering this race. every hour there was a new court ruling and something was happening. speaking of concessions andrew gillam, democratic governance race began sort of concession speech the other night but now it looks like he could be getting recount as well. >> certainly talking about one. history does not repeat itself in florida but it does rhyme. al gore called george bush to concede and then took that concession back as things got closer. right no...