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Palm beach county failed to make the recount deadline, period. >> i will explain it to say that i believe strongly that it wasn't -- not a human effort. it was mechanical. we are required to present a report of the secretary of state and that's what i'm going to report. >> reporter: because of that, senator nelson has now filed a new lawsuit late this afternoon against palm beach county and the state. he wants all of palm beach county's ballots, the entirety of it, recounted by hand. this new hand count of these under and overvotes due to the secretary of state by sunday. laura? >> laura: than...

Credibility of our elections is to me really at stake yet again. i hope that the hand count goes expeditiously. i suspect it will confirm rick scott. i would like us to move on and maybe even look to try to get some systematic overhaul of palm beach county and broward counties accounting process. >> amen on that. first of all i'm not a big believer in coincidences anyway. when all the coincidences add up to one conclusion you have to be kind of suspicious. the fact that brenda snipes, the woman who was responsible for the electronic recount just said okay, we're going to make it but then it tu...

Marc elias working on behalf of democrat bill nelson says breaking, we have sued palm beach in the florida secretary of state to require a hand count of all ballots in the county due to systematic machines. what does that mean? not just over and under but every ballot counted by hand? >> that is correct. i'm not secretary of state now and i don't know all the details but that is what they are requesting. >> is that something that happened under your watch? >> in the overview of this recount, the most important thing that can occur is to follow the law as written is when you start having courts...

This is the live look you're looking at here how it is set up guys there's 100 table there's six people were table. two are election officials two are republicans two democrat and they're only counting the over and under votes that is meaning they're marked too much or didn't mark enough. and what you're hearing a lot about is voter intent of them as lawyers contest them and if you do math you figure -- they've got about we anticipate about about 30,000 under votes, it will take all of today perhaps all of tomorrow. but we should have some indication of how much of contested ballots are coming...

But bad policy out of the democrats is still bad policy. at the end of the day, one of the things that our opponents tend to do, these are women's issues. i can tell you about a mother of five, i care about national security and economic growth and jobs and border security. we as republicans will never be in a situation where we can segment women and say we can only be concerned about certain issues. the end of the day, the policies we pull forward and what we defend and support, they will create a better america for all americans, man and women alike. >> dana: liz cheney making wyoming proud....