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What donald trump and rick scott are trying to spin as the narrative of whats happening in florida, thats this completely baseless claim of voter fraud, votes being made up, this sort of thing. look, as you said in the intro, rachel, trump kind of ran a version of this in 2016 including in the last presidential debate, saying he wouldnt accept the results of the election if he lost. and now i think, you know, how did he finally win? he won by razor thin margins in wisconsin, pennsylvania, michig...

Presidents name and it reads please make an immediate triple match contribution to fully fund our grass roots recount fund. the rnc is saying send money for the recount that the president says he wants to end right now. in any case, thats not how things work in florida. on election night none of the overseas ballots, many from service members had been counted. the deadline for them is this friday. on lelection night no one but t pundits called races. they do not certify weeks and sometimes month...

State officials do not certify for weeks and sometimes months. the vote counting alone in 2014 and 16, it went on for days. its not stopping the governor or president trump for alleging wrong doing. what they are not doing is backing up their claims. >> governor, do you have any hard evidence there was actual fraud or is actual fraud going on, and if so by whom. >> sure. so fist we have very specific election laws in the state to try to prevent fraud. we had to go to court to force the elections...

>> reporter: dave and christine, here in leon county, where the state capital resides, they expect to have the counting wrapped up on tuesday. each county operates differently. most counties are confident they will have all ballots recounted in the senate race. that senate race is getting the most attention. the margin between rick scott and bill nelson is tight. 12,500 votes separate the two. thats why there are so many people focused on it. democrats believe they have the chance to flip the ra...

State capital resides, they expect to have the counting wrapped up on tuesday. each county operates differently. most counties are confident they will have all ballots recounted in the senate race. the margin between rick scott and bill nelson is tight. 12,500 votes separate the two. thats why there are so many people focused on it. democrats believe they have the chance to flip the race from one hand to another. while there is a lot of focus on the vote counting, there is another battle playing...

Tallahassee. >> reporter: dave and christine, here in leon county, where the state capital resides, they expect to have the counting wrapped up on tuesday. each county operates differently. most counties are confident they will have all ballots recounted in the senate race. that senate race is getting the most attention. the margin between rick scott and bill nelson is tight. 12,500 votes separate the two. thats why there are so many people focused on it. democrats believe they have the chance t...

Hand to another. while there is a lot of focus on the vote counting, there is another battle playing out in the courtroom. lawsuits filed by both sides in the past couple days. including the lawsuit by the league of women voters. it will attempt to compel rick scott to step away from the recount process. recuse himself. scott has been aggressive on that front. he has instructed the attorney general pam bondi to get involved and law enforcement to investigate any potential claims of fraud or crim...

Alleged that, quote, unethical liberals are trying to steal the election from him, he has also asked the state law enforcement agency, which he controls to investigate and potentially intervene in vote counting in broward county. yesterday rick scott secured a motion, he filed a motion in court asking a judge to let his state law enforcement agency impound all the vote counting machines in broward county, as in take control of the voting equipment. now the broward county elections department has...

They have a report that specifically advised never to do what broward did. they said when you have a column of instructions, their counties found when you put a race underneath a column of instructions, they concluded that voters were likely to miss that race and not vote on it. so thats why that ballot design issue looms so large. if the nelson campaign is right, that 12,000 could come awfully close to zero because of this. if not, ill not sure where nelson gets the vote. >> that was steve korn...

They said when you have a column of instructions, their counties found when you put a race underneath a column of instructions, they concluded that voters were likely to miss that race and not vote on it. so thats why that ballot design issue looms so large. if the nelson campaign is right, that 12,000 could come awfully close to zero because of this. if not, ill not sure where nelson gets the vote. >> that was steve kornacki earlier today laying out where the nelson campaign thinks it can find ...