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Absentee or provisional ballots have until 5:00 to fix the mistake and make sure the votes are acted. the next deadline is the hand recount. thats supposed to finish tomorrow at noon. the sense that were getting is that most of these counties have already met that or will meet that by tomorrow. thats especially important when you talk about places like here in palm beach county, which had a lot of problems with that machinery count due to older machines breaking down and not being able to do mor...

It by two minutes. listen to this -- >> we have to get with the sound. >> you and i will do a dramatic reading of this. >> wait, as if we never did a machinery count. >> basically i just worked my ass off for nothing. >> yeah, thats why you cant play the sound right there, you wanted to do the reading. >> but, see, the problem with joes frustration is its not actually about joe working his ass off for nothing, its about the voters of florida being denied an accurate recount because of his incomp...

That russian intelligence, russian military intelligence did all the hacking of the dnc and john podesta and hillary clintons e-mails and all of that. they then gave to it wikileaks to submit to make public al those damaging e-mails. all right. kara scannell reporting for us, thank you very much. were also following breaking news on the florida election recount. round one now over. close u.s. senate races head for a second recount, this time by hand. lets go to cnns ryan nobles. he is in talla...

In a row. what is going on in florida tonight? >> first you had election managers having trouble keeping track with all of the ballots flying in and now they may have trouble keeping track of all the lawsuits flying in because you look at nelson, and there areal nine different lawsuits, and we are just in the first phase of this recount possibly with much more to come. there was signs of things bogging down, though i wouldnt take too much stock in the state court giving palm beach county a five ...

In a row. >> first you had election managers having trouble keeping track with all of the ballots flying in and now they may have trouble keeping track of all the lawsuits flying in because you look at nelson, and there are nine different lawsuits, and we are just in the first phase of this recount possibly with much more to come. there was signs of things bogging down, though i wouldnt take too much stock in the state court giving palm beach county a five day extension to complete the machinery...

Points, and thats really a large amount, 33,684. in the senate race we have a small smaller difference, its just .15 percentage points. a machinery count, which is what we are going through right now, we have a .41 and we will recount the ballots. what will happen that race if the race shows a margin under .25, then you have a hand count. >> go back to the machine. that is what is happening right now. we are in the middle of a machinery count. what if it is not completed by

Healthy leads here and so republicans -- i mean, from where i sit, the republicans could be pretty confident and say let the recount proceed, we have nothing to worry about. >> you are looking at republicans instead of taking a calm and confident victory lap seem to feel they need to discredit the recount every way possible. that suggests to me that theres merit, they are concerned about how its going to turnout. the democratic lawyers are pointing out that recounts historically help democratic ...

Governors race. >> they are looking for the votes there. they are looking under tables. >> theres a lot going on. all counties in florida, the results must be submitted by 3:00 p.m. by thursday, and before the counts is in, trump is trying to accuse some of trying to steal the election. here we have three re-counts that are proceeding by law, the law dictates if the vote is within .5% theres a recount. >> yeah, its called the machinery count for the first stage, and then theres a manuel recount ...

Within the realm of possibilities given where the ballots are and given where these concerns are. they are in places where there are a lot of democratic votes. they are legitimately concerned about that. >> why leave any votes on the table? >> this was the theme of the dems in the 2000 and the same now, count all the votes. in 2000, the margins between gore and bush was 535 votes. this is 12,000 between nelson and governor scott. thats a lot. the machinery count is where a lot of votes can advan...

All of the counties in florida have to have the unofficial results into the secretary of state office. they will tabulate the votes. if it is within a half percent margin, that will trigger automatic recount. that will be a machinery count. and from there, each county will -- machine recount and from there, they will recount. theres an influx of high profile lawyers on both sides that descended here in florida. there have been lawsuits filed by both parties, by both candidates in the state of fl...