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Are more votes to count. in the florida senate race we are going it looks like to a second recount. there was the machine recount that almost all the counties finished today, but rick scott, after that recount -- after that machine recount, he appears to lead democratic incumbent bill nelson by less than 13,000 votes and that is definitely close enough for there to be yet another statewide recount. this time not a machine recount. this time it will be ballots being counted by hand. so elections ...

A quarter of a percent. 67 counties will have until sunday at noon to pour over thousands of ballots rejected by a machine because of overvotes or undervotes. now, with the help of state guidelines the canvassing boards will try to determine how these voters intended to vote. its not clear how many overvotes and undervotes exist in floridas senate race, but the number could be between 35,000 and 118,000. whether those ballots will count could go a long way in deciding whether senator bill nelson...

Republicans this afternoon here at the white house to discuss a range of issues, including the farm bill, government appropriations for border security, as well as nominations and prison reform, but a centerpiece of the discussion between the president and the senate republicans, of course, is how to avert a government shutdown next month. >> all right. pamela, thank you very much. pamela brown reporting. weve got some breaking news in florida where the results of a machine recount throughout th...

History of florida, you know it better than anybody, 4,600 statewide general elections in 15 years, recount in less than 30 of them and only 3 recounts changed the end result. how can you make the case that nelson can win? do you think, really, this could change by 12,500 votes? >> yeah. thats -- erin, thats the right question. and the answer to that is, it really is going to depend upon what happens after the machine recount. there was an optical scanning problem in the 2000 election in one cou...

County and one or two smaller counties, right? >> thats right, and so were going to wait on palm beach county to see what happens here and as i mentioned to you before, hillsboro county was the other county that said we need to revert back to the original unofficial results that we turned in on saturday because they had some power outages there. they simply didnt trust those numbers. there was a difference of .16% i believe between the original number of votes they had and what they ended up wit...

Phil keating in riviera beach florida now. what does this mean? >> the federal judge in tallahassee that has been handling all of these lawsuits filed by not only the nelson campaign, the governor scott campaign and other groups, hes tried to assume them all. actually right now in tallahassee, that judge is hearing arguments to allow palm beach county to actually resume the machine recount just for this county alone. could take three or five more days to complete the recount. well see what the j...

Through the front door, asking for asylum? especially with the machine thats going to be a minimum of recount, machines are really six weeks, theres already 2,500 good at counting and so i think people in line asking for the numbers will be remarkably asylum. similar. or through the back? >> harris: that was funny. yes, they are, arent they? about 12 people were arrested, some at the beach you are looking at right now and some more than a week after the yeast in the mountains in midterm election...

For the senate race here. senator nelson wants a machine recount of all the ballots as well. >> neil: thank you very much. again, why that is important, broward county heavily democratic and senator nelson won the county. there was nothing that narrows the gap between senator nelson and governor scott statewide. if anything, governor scott picked up some votes in this process. that was not expected and obviously that was a development that democrats did not plan on. palm beach is a separate issu...

Given that thats where things are now, what do you think democrats should do overt next two days as we come up against these deadlines in georgia and florida? >> i think she should do what they are doing, an excellent legal team on the ground in the senate race led by mark elias, the best after-count election lawyer in the country. the machine recount should be done shortly. some problems in palm beach, mark is in court fighting that, making sure theres enough time, and then a hand recount to re...

Thats where we are. thats where we are tonight. waiting for the latest out of the nelson campaign and from mrs. snipes who walked out of the room soon after that deadline was missed. we are back with the panel. byron, this is kind of nuts. this thing is nuts. >> it is nuts. we do not know the truth of what the campaign is saying, but the fact is this machine recount has not really helped democrats. the whole idea was it would help democrats. in the case of the senate race, it would go on to a ha...