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Wacky florida elections system work specifically as they relate to broward and once again palm beach county. republican lizbeth benacquisto is the rules chair for the florida state senate. let me start with you. what should the viewers at home need to understand tonight about these persistent problems all these years later in broward county? >> hi, laura. i just left the supervisor of elections office. i can tell you that the tens and thousands of ballots being run through machines through the n...

To try to undermine the voting process. he has thrown around words like "voter fraud" without any proof. hes filed lawsuits to try to stop votes from being counted and to impound the voting machines. scott cannot oversee this process in a fair and impartial way. thus he should remove himself from any role in the recount process. >> martha: joining me to respond, florida governor rick scott. good to have you on "the story" tonight. whats your response to what your opponent had to say there? >> it...

Public about the status of votes? absolutely. reality is that broward got their votes in on time, saturday. we have a recount process that was created by republican legislators, rules for recounting that are very well specifically drawn by republican administrations, and the state supervisor of elections, secretary of state have been republican appoints for the last 20 years. yes, theyve been paying attention to brenda snipes at every part of this election. >> tucker: brenda snipes, a name i hav...

The second is that hes using his power as governor to try to undermine the voting process. >> bill nelson is clearly a sore loser. he cant stand the fact that hes not going to be elected for, what, the first time in decades and he -- he is just here to steal this election. >> its not just the accusations that are flying, so have the lawsuits been. six of them after two victories friday, teams denied by a judge bringing in state cops to garden impound the machine when not being used. live inside ...

He is leading now by 12,000 votes. and thats going to be a hard gap to close. and so i think we have already seen with the broward county supervisors that there have been voting irregularities for nearly two decades. so, again, they have missed that court deadline and i think were going to get to a point where we are going to see rick scott coming over to washington to be the next florida senator. brian: today? >> this is a process. they have to finish up the process. but i think there has been ...

Interested in making sure every lawful vote is counted and the second is hes using his power as governor to try to undermine the voting process. >> bill nelson is a sore loser, he cant stand the fact hes not going to be elected for the first time in decades and easier to steal this election. >> not just the accusations that are flying, so have the lawsuits been, after two victories scott epstein denied by judge bringing in state cops to guard and impound the machines and ballots when not being u...

Comply with florida law on multiple counts undermining floridians confidence in our electoral process. supervisor snipes should be removed from her office following the recounts. governor, you know, there are a number of people who are saying that now who had a chance to do something about it before they actually started counting the votes. >> very big thing to take someone out of office and that could open up a big controversy. i think the fact that they didnt indicates that they really believe...

Now, again, we have the democrat, nelson, trying to sue tonight. its hard to tell which person is more nervous. it is razor thin. we were in there for this reason, to do the reporting. we didnt see any voter fraud, none of the election officials we spoke to had that as a concern based on what theyre seeing. panel stays with me. as part of our live florida coverage, i want to hit another part of the recount process, election workers holding up these ballots for inspection. this is the process. yo...

Should have been handled better in terms of forming the public about the status of votes, absolutely but the reality is that broward got their votes inn on time on saturday. we have a recount process created by republican legislators, rules for recountingha that are specificay drawn by republican administrations and a state supervisor of elections secretary of state that have been republican appointees for the last 20 years. and theyve been paying attention to t brenda snipes and every part of t...

Written certainly cast aspersions on my character. i have worked here for about 15 years and i have to say this is the first time that this office or i have been under such attack. so, if we make mistakes, we own mistakes. >> surprising tweet from former governor jeb bush yesterday saying for him there was no question that snipes failed to comply with the law on multiple accounts and called for her to be removed after the recounts. meanwhile on the national level, candidate senator nelson and go...