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Wacky florida elections system work specifically as they relate to broward and once again palm beach county. republican lizbeth benacquisto is the rules chair for the florida state senate. let me start with you. what should the viewers at home need to understand tonight about these persistent problems all these years later in broward county? >> hi, laura. i just left the supervisor of elections office. i can tell you that the tens and thousands of ballots being run through machines through the night. we have yet to begin the recount process here. >> laura: wait a second. it's supposed to be fi...

To try to undermine the voting process. he has thrown around words like "voter fraud" without any proof. he's filed lawsuits to try to stop votes from being counted and to impound the voting machines. scott cannot oversee this process in a fair and impartial way. thus he should remove himself from any role in the recount process. >> martha: joining me to respond, florida governor rick scott. good to have you on "the story" tonight. what's your response to what your opponent had to say there? >> it's pretty consistent for bill nelson. he's always confused. the governor is not responsible for re...

Public about the status of votes? absolutely. reality is that broward got their votes in on time, saturday. we have a recount process that was created by republican legislators, rules for recounting that are very well specifically drawn by republican administrations, and the state supervisor of elections, secretary of state have been republican appoint's for the last 20 years. yes, they've been paying attention to brenda snipes at every part of this election. >> tucker: brenda snipes, a name i have not heard before. i'm not here to attack brenda snipes. i wonder when any question about her han...

The second is that he's using his power as governor to try to undermine the voting process. >> bill nelson is clearly a sore loser. he can't stand the fact that he's not going to be elected for, what, the first time in decades and he -- he is just here to steal this election. >> it's not just the accusations that are flying, so have the lawsuits been. six of them after two victories friday, teams denied by a judge bringing in state cops to garden impound the machine when not being used. live inside the sorting process broward is confident it will make the statewide 3:00 p.m. thursday deadline ...

He is leading now by 12,000 votes. and that's going to be a hard gap to close. and so i think we have already seen with the broward county supervisors that there have been voting irregularities for nearly two decades. so, again, they have missed that court deadline and i think we're going to get to a point where we are going to see rick scott coming over to washington to be the next florida senator. brian: today? >> this is a process. they have to finish up the process. but i think there has been a lot of criticism with how broward county has handled these ballots. and it's, look, i remember t...