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Affected for it to rise to the levels that it currently has and get the scrutiny that it deserves. at the same time, this is playing out on the democratic strong hold. you have a controversy in north florida, bay county, a republican strong hold where the election supervisor decided to allow e-mail voting because you had victims of hurricane michael. wanted to make it as easy as they could for people to vote. the problem is that was not included in the governor's executive order to loosen some of the restrictions so democrats are looking at this and saying if you're looking at evidence of ille...

This week. sorting through ballots a head of a recount in two major mid-term races. senate battle there and governor's race there in florida. will broward county make the next deadline? griff jenkins is watching it from lauderdale, florida. good morning. >> good morning, bill. they haven't started the actual recount yet but getting close and confident they will. let me take you into the tabulation room and tell you what has happened. they're separating that first page and they finished the election day ballots, yesterday they finished the early vote ballots, one more group to go, the mail-in b...

We have separately elected supervisee elections in each county and they do the recounts and the numbers are seo the secretary of state's office. the governor is not involved. my goal is that we follow the law. >> juan: the controversial broward county election supervisor at the center of the firestorm is defending herself is even as our growing calls for her to step down. >> the lawsuit as they are written cast dispersions on my character and i've worked here for about 15 years. i have to say this is the first time this office or i have been under such attack. if you make -- >> juan: jedediah,...

He's participating. what exactly for people watching at home and don't know the ins and occupants of what's happening in broward county what's the bottom line and is there a chance that either of these outcomes can be reversed. >> it's florida and you never want to definitely say something will happen. if you look at most of the majority recounts that happened not just in florida but throughout the nation they seldom have a switch of leader and the margins in the senate race which is smaller than the governor's race are big enough on the order of thousands, less than 12,000 in the samuel alito...

Elections where we find griff. griff, last night they didn't even count they just pulled apart staple stamsz,s. >> they haven't started the recount and tabulation. look in the window, they say they are going to get it done. a little bit of breaking news here. where they are in this separation they are at the letter y. the end of the alphabet on the electoral day votes. they have one more group to do. that's the vote by mail. they say there is 189,000 of those. and that separation will take until tonight before they begin the actual recount. the director of planning and development here joe del...