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Counted. >> bret: he sounds normal regularly for you see -- this is all heading to a recount and its turning nasty down there. these are the latest numbers, a difference of 1.8% that a mandatory, manual recount looks like its going to happen certified tomorrow. and the governors race, its heading to a machine recount at first but we dont know. there may be more ballots out there if it gets under a quarter of a percent, itll be a manual recount too. tonight a judge ruled in favor of rick scott or...

Take whatever steps are necessary with the judiciary to protect the integrity of the system so that we dont have these problems. i think barry will agree that one of the reasons we still have this is we dont have statewide controls over balloting, it is done on a county by county basis, and that is why you can have these outliers. >> laura: got it. so barry, i didnt practice election law, but i remember being in miami beach during the recount -- i think i remember seeing you guys down there at t...

>> neil: amazing. wow. >> and the senate race could be. the senate race right now is so close it would caqualify for a hand review. >> neil: thanks. join us for "cavuto live" as they go through what could be a long and extended recount. now we have gail prada joining us, attorney. the process could take how long? lets say you do a machine recount. you do it across the state then, right? every single county, jurisdiction, right? >> thats right. it could take weeks. we saw this happen in 2000 with...

Other ballots other places. lets all just remember that while losing is never fun, and we remember our losses, believe me -- remember 92, 96, 2006 during the bush midterms, 2008, 2012, it is never fun. but i will tell you, losing our democratic process would be catastrophic. and that is the angle. joining us now, three men who know this florida issue better than pretty much most everyone in the country, barry richard is currently andrew gillums attorney, also represented george w. bush in the 20...

The last time i checked with mr. gillums situation, the margin was under a half a percent, but over a quarter percent. thats my understanding of the current situation. >> that would require the state would then require a machine recount of those votes. do you -- are you satisfied that all the votes have been counted or are there more outstanding votes you want to make sure do get counted? >> i dont know what the situation is on the uncounted votes. earlier today, there were still uncounted votes...

Territory. >> so sheer whats happening right now. >> he lied. >> in florida 67 are continues to count their ballots includes mill-ins. >> members of the military possibly not getting their votes counted. >> if the margin of the totals is less than .5% florida law triggers are recount done by machine. >> the machine recount would go until 3:00 p.m. next thursday, thats november 15th. if that recount results in races with a margin of less than

Ten years. take a look at broward county. all of a sudden theyre finding votes out of nowhere and rick scott who won by, you know, it was close, but he won by a comfortable margin. every couple of hours it goes down a little bit. >> president trump just a short time ago on the races for senate and governor down in florida which could possibly be headed for a recount. officials are still counting absentee and overseas ballots. as of right now, newly counted votes have pushed democrats gillum and ...

Make sense of it. >> it sounds like its become a catch all. whats happening is in any normal election they would be continuing to count the ballots. thats whats due on saturday to the secretary of states office. thats whats going to eventually trigger this recount. whats happening now in broward county is they are counting the provisional ballots and absentee ballots. thats why youre seeing the margins get tighter. by tomorrow at noon that canvassing process will be done. whats going to happen i...

Over? nothing over until broward county says it is. ♪ good evening. im chuck todd. welcome to "mtp daily." were still counting votes and the president is stoking a cold civil war because of it. democrats have closed the margin in the florida senate case to 0.2%. and that could trigger a hand recount. and they already have a hand recount likely for the states ag commission race. they have closed the margin for florida governor, too, that could trigger a machine recount. democrats have tighten...

Closer to their republican opponents. in the race for senate, just over 15,000 votes now separate rick scott and bill nelson. the difference is less than a quarter of a point. under florida law, a margin smaller than half a point automatically triggers a machine recount. we believe at the end of the day senator nelson is going to be declared the winner and returned to the u.s. senate. in broward county more than 22,000 people voted for a governor candidate but didnt vote for a senator candidate....