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Elected officials from toying with and mocking with elections that they're on the line for. rick scott shouldn't be threatening to send in cops. >> speaking of which, even before the election last weekend, we're into this weekend, last weekend brian kemp, the secretary of state of georgia who wants the other job of being the candidate for governor was claiming fraud there. he was saying there was hacking into the system by the democrats, and now we have the governor of florida, also the candidate for the united states senate in florida claiming voter fraud down there because the democrats want...

Keep coming out and there's more today. >> reporter: are they overwhelmingly democratic voters? >> of course. this is -- that's why they're here. i mean, you know, willie sutton robbed the bank, that's where the money is. democrats come here because that's where the votes are. >> reporter: he also told us after the machine count happens, if the margin of difference between two candidates is less than one quarter of 1%, then you get the hand count. it's going to take some time. the deadline for the completion of the hand count is november 18th. that's eight days of the kind of confusion and cha...

Is going to be by machine, it has to be completed by this coming thursday, now, if the margin of difference between any two of the candidates in that machine recount is less than 1 quarter of 1%, then it goes to a hand count, now, while all of that is going on, the board of -- the supervisor of elections here is defending itself against all kinds of allegations of corruption and criminal activity, listen up. >> allegations of fraud, those are serious charges to throw out there, there's no basis for it. to give a claim of fraud without any evidence, i think is unacceptable. >> but an attorney f...

If they move to a hand count in florida, they have to be separate counts for governor and then a separate count for senate. so at least two hand counts may be in play, which is just also mind boggling. i think what we see here is something that happens when elections are close, republicans call for a recount, democrats call for a recount. we know it can come down to a couple hundred votes. as a country we should be supporting everyone who voted, people took the time, the energy, we had a lot of new voters out there, and we have systems that are changing as well. states are adapting to new rule...

Almost certainly will be in the u.s. senate race between nelson and governor scott. >> but there's also reporting that this thing may come down to a hand count. it sounds laborious, problematic. is it, daniel, more accurate? >> you know, there's some debate over whether manual counts are actually more reliable than automatic counts, but be that as it may, if after the automatic machine count is completed, which should be done next week, the margin is still within .25%. that's one quarter of 1%. then at that time there will be a manual count and there's not a lot of time allowed under florida l...