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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...

But how we administer elections as well, whether it's the machines that we're using to mark ballots, cast ballots, count ballots on election day. they're not connected to the internet. no way to have them systematically rigged or hacked. but even the accuracy of the results, there's a random percentage manual tally that's required for each and every county in california to make sure that a hand count matches up with the machine count to ensure the accuracy of the election. nothing's going to change. i think the call for an investigation of some sort, we've had yet to see the details. based on ...

Election offices, up and down the state on election night to observe the counting of the ballots. and since election night, to observe the processing of vote by mail ballots and provisional ballots. >> some states like, i think, wisconsin, pennsylvania, they do some sample testing after the election in a number of counties, to see, you know, if the vote, in fact, is what it was on election night. does california do that? do you look back at all? do you check? >> absolutely. we have several layers of security, actually. we have the highest standards for certification of what systems can be used...

We have criteria for election day itself. no machines that are used to mark ballots, cast ballots, count ballots, at any point, can be connected to the internet. so it's nearly impossible to systemically hack or rig the election. and yes, after fact, we do require a percentage manual tally, just to make sure that the hand count matches up with the machine count, both for the accuracy of the results and the integrity of the results. election integrity is paramount. we take all accusations of voter fraud very seriously, and to me, that's what was most troublesome of the tweets yesterday. signifi...

Wisconsin to count 3 million paper votes. how can you possibly get that done in two weeks? >> well, in order for that to happen, the campaign would need to go to court, and obtain a court order. there's a pretty high burden of proof to convince a court that a hand count should be ordered. statewide. some clerks will tell you, though, that a machine count in some cases is not necessarily much faster than a hand count, because every ballot needs to be counted -- or needs to be looked at anyway, even before it goes into the machine. but, clearly for some of our larger counties they will want to u...