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Making time tonight, we appreciate your time. >> good evening, my pleasure. >> so let me just ask you, youve said that ken paxtons attempt at trying to get you indicted was intended to be intimidating and some of that was successful. i wonder if if you could take us back to the moment when you realized this was happening, when you realized what he was trying to do? >> it all began with a complaint in the counting station where a few poll watchers were claiming that they couldnt see or hear clear...

Christmas tree. whats going to happen is every county is going to release all of the mail-in ballots basically that were received, basically until about right now. youre going to have millions of votes. theyve been counting them up. theyve been processing ballots. theyve been getting ready. they just have to release them. thats the first thing youll see. thatll cover probably more than half the vote in california pretty quickly. youre right, there is a difference between the mail-in voting and t...

Vote and not voting twice. and in some states votes are counted even if they come in days after the election, as long as they are postmarked by election day. and eight states dont even start looking at the mail-in ballots until election day. pennsylvania, for one, is going to take a long time. more than 2 million ballots in the state have been returned, and they wont even start processing them until election day. >> i feel confident that the overwhelming majority will be counted by friday, if no...

Live from washington tonight. and mary, with this record-breaking number of early votes, of course, the big question weve all been talking about here at abc with our political team for weeks now, the realization this could be a very long election night, it could really last well beyond election night. so, where could we know in the evening on tuesday, where could we still be waiting hours, i hate to say it, but days into it? >> reporter: well, david, some critical states like florida and north c...

This is what we are showing you since 11:00 yesterday, the machines have been processing ballots or actually right now not running because they are loogdz in another batch of ballots. we believe, to be the mail-in votes. they have been doing it all night long. and really they are not recounting just yet, guys. they are getting the first page counted to get a total number of votes because the governor scotts lawsuit focuses against brenda snipes because they claim she failed to account for the to...

They made 25,000 calls from this phone bank, 400 people out on the road right now. theyre going through the numbers here still, trying to make sure they can get as many to the polls as possible on tuesday. brooke? >> look at those volunteers. kyung, thank you n vegas. this time an independent candidate is turning utah into a three-way battle ground. lets go to stephanie elam in salt lake city. hey, stephanie. >> reporter: hi, brooke, yes. when you take a look at the election here in utah its dif...