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ballots that haven t been properly counted that it won t change the outcome given the margin right now. that s exactly right. honestly, when you talk to republicans and democrats privately, they are very clear eyed about that prospect. there still needs to be some sort of massive issue with this vote counting process that we have yet to uncover. there s the possibility in a broward county where there was a certain number of under votes and over votes that weren t attributed to the senate race. perhaps that will be uncovered in the recount process. at this point, we need to make it clear, if this thing changes, it would be something that s never happened. the deadlines are when? thursday will be the machine count recount deadline. they will then take a second look at the numbers.
it could be anywhere between 20,000 and 100,000 ballots. you raise an important point. traditionally in recounts you re talking about, you know, it s a couple of hundred vote difference, which is obviously not the case here. you re talking about thousands of votes difference. so the likelihood is unless there s a massive some sort of massive mistake or massive number of ballots that haven t been properly counted, that it won t change the outcome given the margin right now. reporter: yeah, that s exactly right, anderson. and honestly when you talk to both republicans and democrats privately they re very clear-eyed about that prospect. if there still needs to be some sort of massive issue with this vote counting process that we have yet to uncover, now there is that possibility in broward county where there was a certain number of undervotes and overvotes that were not necessarily attributed to the nelson senate race that were to
history. how is it broward county is at the center of florida election controversy yet again, and do you worry that the public may be losing confidence in the integrity of florida s elections system? ana, there is no controversy here. every county in the state had until noon today, saturday, to finish their vote counting process. broward county is the second largest county in the state and we had over 600,000 votes cast. it takes a long time. we re talking about a five-page, two-sided ballot that has to be fed into the machine to read the votes that were cast. the tabulations have to occur. it s a cumbersome, arduous process. that s why florida law give us all 67 supervisors until 12:00 noon the saturday after the election to complete that process and that s exactly what happened. what s unfortunate is that the governor and the president don t
you have to prove it to us that this election has been conducted in a proper form. susan, republicans in florida and arizona, they have filed lawsuits to stop the vote counting process all together. but wouldn t that potentially stifle additional republican votes coming down the pipeline? what they re looking at in those states, they re already ahead and they look at the balance of the votes that are out there, day determine internally how they think those votes are going to break, and they know probably based on where the votes are coming in, it s not going to favor the republicans. certainly in arizona, that s the case. you can certainly make that argument when it came to florida. just one other thing, in georgia, this isn t so much about who s going to win, it s about keeping kemp under the 50% mark. if they can change that, then there s an automatic runoff. so it s not win or lose, it s a runoff, and that s the thing.