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Ballots, the entire county, hear in palm beach to be hand recounted. we'll see what the secretary of state decides about that. i'm sure that will be heard in federal court by the same judge. also, senator nelson took a couple of losses today. he was hoping that the deadline could be eliminated and everybody could count until everybody got the recount completed. that was denied as well. so senator nelson, governor scott, a very tight race. so tight it's .14% of a difference with scott in the lead. so everyone fully expects an order from the secretary of state to order every county to do a hand ...

Phil keating in riviera beach florida now. what does this mean? >> the federal judge in tallahassee that has been handling all of these lawsuits filed by not only the nelson campaign, the governor scott campaign and other groups, he's tried to assume them all. actually right now in tallahassee, that judge is hearing arguments to allow palm beach county to actually resume the machine recount just for this county alone. could take three or five more days to complete the recount. we'll see what the judge says there. as far as senator nelson goes, because the machines here tuesday night broke down...

For the senate race here. senator nelson wants a machine recount of all the ballots as well. >> neil: thank you very much. again, why that is important, broward county heavily democratic and senator nelson won the county. there was nothing that narrows the gap between senator nelson and governor scott statewide. if anything, governor scott picked up some votes in this process. that was not expected and obviously that was a development that democrats did not plan on. palm beach is a separate issue here but the same continues. the numbers that the democrats are hoping to pick up, both from the g...

More votes than was earlier thought than the substantial votes that nelson already had? >> so and we still have not heard officially from the secretary of state in tallahassee that a hand recount is about to start, what time it's going to start. the numbers that are coming in from all of these different -- a couple dozen different machine recounts show that the scott lead has extended a little bit. but less than 1,000 for now. >> neil: got it. all right. again, he's trying to overcome about a 14,000 point gap between himself and the senator. now to the legal fallout from this. brian silver is ...

The results as they read out show that between election day and the recount, rick scott lost 606 votes. but bill nelson lost more than 1,300. brenda snipes did say that not every vote was unincluded in the total. a few dozen included in a batch that has duplicates and they couldn't figure them out so they submitted them all to having voters feel disenfranchised. the judge has issued a few big rulings today. some celebrated by one side, some celebrate ed by the other. after giving voters with motions to blow out the 3:00 p.m. deadline today was not going to fly because nobody told him how much ...