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We are going to let this process play out. >> that's a very important reality check, jessica dean. thank you so much. it's a monumental task rekoupding 8.5 million votes. the initial recount triggered by florida law is being done by machine. that could lead to a manual hand count of votes. i want to get more on how this arduous process is playing out. we have cnn analyst mark preston to tell us about that. officials are scrambling to get this done. tell us about what's happening right now and when is the deadline for finishing this? >> you are absolutely right. looking at more than eight milli...

County, they say they'll be able to get to that deadline. however, they'll only be able to get to the deadline on the senate race. you may be wondering why they can't get their act together. what happens. the deadline is 3:00 p.m. there's a hand count that will be reordered if the margin in any of these races is less than 0.25%. all of them are less than 0.5%. that's why we have a machine recount. if it's less than 0.25%, they'll do it by hand. again, the deadline is 3:00. go to the hand recouldn't. here's the deal. the hand recount is only for the overvote or under vote. the overvote is for t...

Points, and that's really a large amount, 33,684. in the senate race we have a small smaller difference, it's just .15 percentage points. a machinery count, which is what we are going through right now, we have a .41 and we will recount the ballots. what will happen that race if the race shows a margin under .25, then you have a hand count. >> go back to the machine. that is what is happening right now. we are in the middle of a machinery count. what if it is not completed by

Get a machinery recount and .25 it's a hand count. it's hard to get it done by thursday and that's why broward is working all night. there's no discretion. elections within those percentages get those recounts. >> governor scott is going full fraud. he's decided already before waiting for the recount, he's accusing his opponent without any evidence whatsoever of committing fraud. the interesting thing is there's evidence of incompetent, and there's evidence that something was done in a shotty fashion, but the fraud plan begs him to present something. >> it's baseless. he has not presented any ...

Sunday afternoon. and some of these counties are saying they can't do that, hugo. >> you're right. 3:00 p.m. for a machine count. if that reduces the margin to less than a quarter percent it is meant to go to a hand count. the suggestion that it's impossible to do this is another way of muddying the waters. it is weird these places which have a history of not getting elections right somehow are incapable of doing what the rest of the country does and the rest of the state does. it will go to a hand count but they are already saying they can't meet the machine count. this is another way of conf...