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Making time tonight, we appreciate your time. >> good evening, my pleasure. >> so let me just ask you, you've said that ken paxton's attempt at trying to get you indicted was intended to be intimidating and some of that was successful. i wonder if if you could take us back to the moment when you realized this was happening, when you realized what he was trying to do? >> it all began with a complaint in the counting station where a few poll watchers were claiming that they couldn't see or hear clearly enough what was going on. and their complaint was odd because they were standing right next to...

Christmas tree. what's going to happen is every county is going to release all of the mail-in ballots basically that were received, basically until about right now. you're going to have millions of votes. they've been counting them up. they've been processing ballots. they've been getting ready. they just have to release them. that's the first thing you'll see. that'll cover probably more than half the vote in california pretty quickly. you're right, there is a difference between the mail-in voting and the same day voting in california, though it is not as dramatic as we've seen elsewhere. if ...

Vote and not voting twice. and in some states votes are counted even if they come in days after the election, as long as they are postmarked by election day. and eight states don't even start looking at the mail-in ballots until election day. pennsylvania, for one, is going to take a long time. more than 2 million ballots in the state have been returned, and they won't even start processing them until election day. >> i feel confident that the overwhelming majority will be counted by friday, if not before. >> reporter: but that doesn't mean we won't know who won the presidency earlier than tha...

Live from washington tonight. and mary, with this record-breaking number of early votes, of course, the big question we've all been talking about here at abc with our political team for weeks now, the realization this could be a very long election night, it could really last well beyond election night. so, where could we know in the evening on tuesday, where could we still be waiting hours, i hate to say it, but days into it? >> reporter: well, david, some critical states like florida and north carolina have already been processing ballots for weeks now. so, we could know a fair amount early o...

This is what we are showing you since 11:00 yesterday, the machines have been processing ballots or actually right now not running because they are loogdz in another batch of ballots. we believe, to be the mail-in votes. they have been doing it all night long. and really they are not recounting just yet, guys. they are getting the first page counted to get a total number of votes because the governor scott's lawsuit focuses against brenda snipes because they claim she failed to account for the total number of ballots left to be counted. yesterday, i asked the attorneys for both the democrat si...