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Are more votes to count. in the florida senate race we are going it looks like to a second recount. there was the machine recount that almost all the counties finished today, but rick scott, after that recount -- after that machine recount, he appears to lead democratic incumbent bill nelson by less than 13,000 votes and that is definitely close enough for there to be yet another statewide recount. this time not a machine recount. this time it will be ballots being counted by hand. so elections officials will be looking for ballots that the machines might have had trouble reading because a vot...

A quarter of a percent. 67 counties will have until sunday at noon to pour over thousands of ballots rejected by a machine because of overvotes or undervotes. now, with the help of state guidelines the canvassing boards will try to determine how these voters intended to vote. it's not clear how many overvotes and undervotes exist in florida's senate race, but the number could be between 35,000 and 118,000. whether those ballots will count could go a long way in deciding whether senator bill nelson is reelected or if governor scott takes his seat. >> meanwhile, a machine recount produced very l...

Republicans this afternoon here at the white house to discuss a range of issues, including the farm bill, government appropriations for border security, as well as nominations and prison reform, but a centerpiece of the discussion between the president and the senate republicans, of course, is how to avert a government shutdown next month. >> all right. pamela, thank you very much. pamela brown reporting. we've got some breaking news in florida where the results of a machine recount throughout the state have just come out, and the senate race is still too close to be headed towards -- so close...

History of florida, you know it better than anybody, 4,600 statewide general elections in 15 years, recount in less than 30 of them and only 3 recounts changed the end result. how can you make the case that nelson can win? do you think, really, this could change by 12,500 votes? >> yeah. that's -- erin, that's the right question. and the answer to that is, it really is going to depend upon what happens after the machine recount. there was an optical scanning problem in the 2000 election in one county and after the optical scans went through, several thousand votes were picked up for al gore. t...

County and one or two smaller counties, right? >> that's right, and so we're going to wait on palm beach county to see what happens here and as i mentioned to you before, hillsboro county was the other county that said we need to revert back to the original unofficial results that we turned in on saturday because they had some power outages there. they simply didn't trust those numbers. there was a difference of .16% i believe between the original number of votes they had and what they ended up with after the recount with the power outages, and they said we just simply don't feel confident eno...