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Machine recount to be voided. republican rick scott leading democratic incumbent bill nelson. more on this with florida attorney general pam bondi. >> jon: first let's bring in america's a-team. shelby holliday is video reporter for the "wall street journal." david asman co-anchor of bulls and bears on the fox business network and doug shown. democratic pollster and fox news contributor as well. >> sandra: is this your first time on the a-team? >> it is. i'm pleased to be here. >> sandra: happy friday. this has been really something to watch play out. we were all talking about this deadline ye...

Constitutional, it is. the hand recount here follows a machine recount that didn't count because broward county submitted results 2 minutes late. elections supervisor brenda snipes believes everything's been going great on her watch. >> i believe we were able to accomplish, what we did accomplish in the period of time we were given. >> the official excuse is that an elections official didn't know how to use the web site to send them to the state, that means the prerecount total stands which is better in broward for the democrat nelson and worse for rick scott whose campaign is crying foul. >> ...

So the originals will be made official and the words tonight of a not so happy staffer, "i worked my off or nothing. the supervisor of elections blames the machines. >> i will explain it to say that i believe strongly it wasn't not a human effort, it was mechanical. so we are required to present a report to the secretary of state and that's exactly what i'm going to report. and speak out because of that breakdown in the machines, senator nelson is suing for a hand recount of all ballots in palm beach county. attorney marc elias with the campaign said this, we have sued palm beach county on the...

That triggered these counts are tiny. you look at half a percentage point will trigger a machine recount, a quarter percentage point will trigger a hand recount. in a state as big as florida, these are huge numbers of votes. ron desantis has 33,000 votes more than andrew gillum for the governor's race and as peter was just saying, there are 12,600 votes more for governor scott than there are for his democratic opponent bill nelson. now, that 779 votes would have extended rick scott's lead by just 6 1/2%. these are very small amounts of change. i don't think that -- i think it's very -- it woul...

Says "we have sued palm beach on the florida secretary of state to require a hand count of all ballots in that county due to systematic machine failure during the machine recount. what does that mean? is it not just the over and under? they want every ballot counted by hand? >> that's correct. as you know, i'm not secretary of state now and i really don't know all the details but it seems as though that's what they are requesting. >> shannon: i can't imagine how long that would actually take and is it something that ever happened under your watch? >> it's really important i think in the overvi...