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Are standing by. so call now. >> neil: it's hard to build this up. it's tension you can cut with a knife. in palm beach county, they're done counting votes here. the hand count now ensues. the lawsuits are piling up. how palm beach county deals with that after this. embrace the chance of 100% clear skin with taltz, the first and only treatment of its kind offering people with moderate to severe psoriasis a chance at 100% clear skin. with taltz, up to 90% of people quickly saw a significant improvement of their psoriasis plaques. don't use if you're allergic to taltz. before starting, you shoul...

We believe this process will go forward in the proper fashion. >> shannon: an arbitrary deadline? why not change it? >> there is nothing arbitrary about the deadline. the entire structure and sort election law was put in place after the 2000 recount to try to address some of the issues, but the truce truth is there is a d deadline required by law, not just for this recount, but for any election in florida. there is a hard deadline for any potential hand count. andy hardy deadline for certified. they are not arbitrary. they need to be met. >> shannon: okay. i want to play a little bit of someth...

Battle or agricultural commissioner battle. and then we have the 4,000 absentee ballots where they have to verify signatures. i know there's going to be a hand count as well. a lot of things have to go senator nelson's way even if he got all of those ballots that -- whose signatures that are being checked, it wouldn't be enough to close the gap at this point. >> well, look, it's not a question right now of what will the ultimate outcome be. this is a question of process. the whole idea is we want to make sure that the citizens of this country have their right to vote protected. florida law say...

Anyway saying, breaking, we've sued palm beach county to require a hand count of old ballots in the county due to systematic machine failure during the recount. nelson sits in second place right now, but he is leading with lawsuits filed. his campaign has filed eight, rick scott has filed six. they want him to follow up on reports that some democrats tried to encourage voters to send in ballots for two days after the election. the rubble can campaign manager says in a statement, bill nelson can stay silent and or do the right thing and -- they mostly watched county since last tuesday, broward,...

To sue palm beach county for halting what was a machine count, recount. now it's down to handwritten recounts. they take all of them by hand and count them for the state. none of these numbers have changed in this process. if anything, rick scott slightly widened his lead. would you advise bill nelson to give up or let the process work its way? >> i think the way their code is written, when the closeness is of the race is as close as it is, it's a mandatory recount. i could with wrong. >> neil: you're right. the hand count is next, to that point. but these lawsuits could push things back is wh...