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Statewide office agriculture commissioner which is very important in florida, the democrat is ahead. >> bret: we are getting worried that rick scott is going to speak in tallahassee tonight, pushing back on democrats recount efforts and calls. it's not really a choice. in florida, it's automatic. >> it's automatic although i think the person behind could waive the recount, challenge the recount. automatic recount that happens. i think the political story here is interesting which is the results of this have a lot of influence on "20/20". this is a state the president took. i think coming out o...

That's a courtroom. automatic recount would come -- a runoff would come -- but even then, if he falls below, there's going to be ballots out there, too. the first challenge is knock him below 50%. abrams campaign says that's not right. there's some ballots that haven't been counts or absentee ballots they can't track down. that's what they say. in terms of the secretary of state is saying, even though stacey abrams wins big here, the state is saying, we're done here. that's a lawyer issue. over here, 83% of fulton, just want to go quickly. 100, 99, 100. i look at this, because i've done this o...

Is an automatic, automatic recount. and, so, the other thing that we're learning that could impact this is that there are still some votes missing. votes that are missing are overseas military and absentee. those votes could take up to a week. what happens in between? we're trying to figure all that out as we go with the secretary of state. but meanwhile, rick scott has announced his victory, saying that he wants to work for every family in florida, and we're expecting bill nelson to make some sort of statement today. >> before you go, something jim and i are fascinated by. and that is amendme...

Vote going to republicans. that's one end of policy. then the house side and where the democrats won. it's suburban, it's educated and young and ethnic. these different groups of parties are clinging and moving away. that's where we are right now. we have an update for you. are you hearing what's going on? >> we are looking at the votes coming in from florida in the senate race. the big question is why evaporate we called it? look at the margin. 50.2% to 49.8%. what i'm told this could be is recount territory. automatic recount in florida. according to florida law it is automatic recount if it...

Tight race is. i know probably people are getting hives at home when i say florida recount. that could be where we are. >> you see the number on the bottom, 99%, over the wall we go. 99% is in and we are looking for one more percent. what do you see with the counties, where that vote could be? >> not are inially what you see, but the fact that there is absentee ballots. 5.6% of the total has shifted. dana hits the key point. why haven't we called florida. our decision desk is caution and careful for a reason. there is out standing vote that could put you into recount territory. .4% separates t...