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50.3/49.7. 0.6 of one point. we said this earlier, but to remind everybody, one of the reasons you do not see a check mark next to rick scott's name is, there are still potentially some outstanding precincts here. even a slight, and i mean very slight, like one-tenth of a point improvement for nelson in that margin would bring that down to 0.5 of a point, and that would trigger an automatic recount. if you're at half a percent or less, automatic recount. nelson on the cusp of that. not all precincts in. we're still trying to make sense of that completely. it's still the possibility there this ...

Which is being tabulated now. mcsally seems to have done better. and down here, this is simena leading here. but that election day vote possibly in the maricopa county, which is 60% of the state, that could be key. the other issue is the governor's race in georgia. they're counting absentee ballots right now. will the breakdown be enough to pull kemp over 50%? if that happened, if that gets to 49.9, that race heads to a runoff. there is also the outstanding question of this senate race in florida where you see rick scott right now, 34,000 vote advantage over nelson. you can see that is .4 of a...

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It is. >> there is in automatic recount. >> no. you have to call for it. but i was just hearing from a republican strategist who said either way a recount one way or another. and that both sides would probably want one or the looser would want one. >> generally don't change much. >> right. >> this is -- this is a close enough race it gets down to a couple hundred votes, it's possible but again it generally doesn't change that much. >> if it gets down to less. >> gets down to less. >> like eight votes. >> it definitely could change. >> it depends on whether one of the campaigns or one of the pa...

But in general, this is how it works. there are 20 states plus the district of columbia, which call for automatic recounts, if you have a very close vote. for example, in michigan, if it's less than 2,000 votes separating the winner and loser, automatic recount. beyond that, 43 states that would allow the candidates to petition for a recount. there are five states out there that allow the parties to ask for a recount. and beyond that, you could have 17 states that let voters do it. but this could be a very expensive proposition. for example, the state of washington had a gubernatorial race wit...