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Forged, must go with election night -- >> well, he's wrong. sounds like he doesn't want any of his military ballots counted and this is veterans day. florida is doing what it's supposed to do. it's counting the votes, going to have a machine recount. went through all of these steps. and probably rick scott is going to be the senator and probably ron desantis is going to be the governor. when they challenge their opponents as sore losers, that's fine. that's within normal give-and-take of elections. to undermine america's faith in the most democratic institution, the ballot box, i think it's wr...

Know or you're not telling how many ballots are out there and that sent up red flares for republicans who thought this was the beginning of an effort to change the vote. >> harris: what congressmen matt gaetz told me on friday when the news was breaking, what he said was you need that certain number that the machines give you so you know what you are tallying against. if you know 100 and you will know you only have a stack of 50, you know you've got a problem because the machine is already counted them and what happened to the others. it's the opposite effect here, this was my other question. ...

Scott launching a series of lawsuits accusing democrats of trying to steal the election. >> we have specific election laws in the state to prevent fraud. we had to go to court to force the supervisors in two counties to comply with the law. the law is there to prevent fraud. i've asked the florida department of law enforcement to do an investigation to find out what happened here. we know that judges have already said they clearly violated the law. >> sandra: brad todd is a senior advisor to florida governor rick scott, good morning to you. can you just give us an idea of where things stand at...

Steve kornacki, on friday you and i were talking about butterfly ballots and talking about 2000 but also about these ballots right now and why they seem to potentially funky. >> this manual recount starts, that's probably the biggest outstanding piece of real estate in terms of this senate race and the math involved here. we'll see where that stands after the machine recount. assuming it's under the thresholds, it could be a lot simpler than this question of trying to discern voter intent. there will tens of thousands of ballots that have been marked and just missed by the machine.

Deadline. what's interesting here is that this machine recount, if you look at the spread in each of these races in florida, machine recounts traditionally only move the vote may be 200-300 votes. remember the tallahassee debacle in 2000, i was there for 40 days and 40 nights bouncing from courtroom to courtroom, looking at judges making rulings and that was over just a few hundred votes that separated al gore and george bush. this is thousands and thousands of votes and there would have to be systemic failure for that to change. that is why democrats are raising the prospect of why are republ...