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Or two or three ballots upon scanning the bar code that may miss scanning. >> you're saying even though you have 1195 ballots there may be a handful that aren't necessarily going to be officially counted. is that right. >> that's right, sir. that's why we'll pick then up in the hand count and also. >> i want to make sure -- those have been confirmed rebuke right. >> i'm sorry, sir. >> the 1195 have been returned, right. >> that's on electric produce report created by scanning the bar codes. >> the reason you decided to do is because of the nature of the race how close it is. >> it's very close...

Options. pennsylvania's law requires a recount for statewide races if candidates are within .5% of each other. the law is murky, it does not specify what happens when you're in a congressional district like this one. not a statewide race, a congressional district. the ka season campaign says it may not make a final decision about their next move until march 20th. that is also the deadline for both these candidates to file paperwork to run in november. this district is going away because of redistricting, they'll have to decide which new district these have to move into if they want to run agai...

>> kaitlin, jonathan, jason, i cannot thank you enough for staying up with me later and later and later into the night as we keep waiting. still not over, we are waiting. i am a broken record at this point. but washington county, they are scanning, they are counting, those ballots are flying through the machines, i hope they're flying through the machines, and any minute now we are going to find out those 1,195 absentee ballots. how did they go? does saccone still have a chance or is it over?

Try to find out where these absentee ballots land in washington, you can stay up and i promise you i will stay up. the second we find out, i will come on and i will tell you what's going to happen here in a couple of minutes is i think they're going to go to taped programming, some stuff that ran earlier in the evening. relive the great moments of the evening if you'd like. feel free to do that. please though stay tuned if you're interested in getting these numbers because we will break in as soon as we get them. i will do it. i can't leave here until i get to these numbers so please stay up w...

Is pretty quick. one is a hand count of the ballots. the other one is a scan. it's a very close race, they want to be very thorough. what we're told is there are 40 precincts that are left in washington county for them to do the scan. that the hand counts are completed. that they're now doing the scan, the ballot scan in those 40 remaining precincts. when that is done, if this holds, we will then know who won those 1,200 votes, 1195 to be exact, in washington county. those absent tee votes. remember, it needs to be -- saccone needs a big number, he's trying to cut into a 579-vote lead for cono...