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Preliminary totals, just the final once we've finished everything. >> meaning release the final total of the entire county's vote? >> after we've recorded the absentees. >> we'll have to do some math when you do that. hearing about and saccone campaign is talking about provisional and military ballots. trying to pin down how many are out there. do you have a sense of how many provisional ballots were cast? >> i do not. we didn't start on those yet. focus was on getting the absentees counted. military outstanding absentees, 14 outstanding and they have until march 20th to be received by our off...

All the vote. we add the absentees in, that's going to be pretty much what we've got. i got to say, we teased this possibility earlier. we have to check the decimal point. if it ends up within half a point. if the margin between lamb and saccone, if the margin were 0.5% or less, then we go to a recount. lamb would be less than half a percentage vote. if he got that up in the absentee ballots, then you're not counting recount anymore. if it stayed in that range, we would be talking recount. >> so if steve is correct and our computers are correct, and we will allow steve to correct both, this is...

Absentee ballots. >> steve, in my calculations here, i actually wrote 95. before when you told me all that stuff about the precincts, cornell belcher -- the numbers steve laid out for us before, if you were doing it in your head it was something like that or a tie. that's why i kept saying a tie. there you are at a statistical tie. the allegheny absentees look like they're going to decide this, and they will probably decide this in favor of conor lamb. >> and some young man or woman in the lamb campaign who works the field and is in charge of absentee ballot probably won that district tonight....

Extrapolate that, we're sitting at 600 or so absentee ballots. if you have to make up 650 votes, we split that, now we're 1300. we split the 650 in two, 1625. you're probably going to get -- let's say you have to get 1625 out of 2600 -- okay, you probably need about 63% of the vote. that's probably what saccone would need to get if these estimates are right. 63%. how did he do? could he get 63% in these remaining absentees? 53 is what he got election day, 57 is what he got election day, 58. he would have to overperform what he got on election day in these absentees if that series of calculatio...

To leave them at 650 and then you'll just have absentees in washington, westmoreland an update there. we are now expected -- they're counting the absentee ballots in both of these counties, so we do now think we'll get absentees out of these counties tonight. greene, only about 200 absentees there. basically what that means, if those indeed are the precincts, to make up 650 in those absentees, saccone has to pretty dramatically overperform what he did on election day in these republican areas. i like to tell people we live in the age of surprises. maybe he'll surprise us here, but it looks lik...