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Beach county, which we knew was having problems from the very beginning, and broward county, which actually submitted their results two minutes late. as a result, the secretary of state revertd back to to if numbers from other three counties posted on saturday. regardless, it doesn t really mean all that much in the grand scheme of things because the margins in this senate race did not change all that much. in fact, rick scott did gain votes over this process, but it remains less than a quarter of a percent difference. and according to florida law, that automatically triggers the recount of the overvotes and undervotes in this contest. ryan, what will the officials be looking for during the hand recount? great question. everyone probably wonders what an overvote or undervote. it s essentially when someone is filling in the little dots to indicate which person they want to vote for. if they put a marking in both of the ovals and the optical scan ....
Only county in the state that is still not official yet that failed to meet the 3:00 deadline. on the tables here, you can see the papers there. what is next is the hand recount ordered by the secretary of state. they follow the numbers as they did for the first round of counting. they ll have 40 people at these tables. papers in front of them and pen. on those pages, they will have to go through all of the undervotes and the overvotes. these are ballots-where somebody filled out the bubbles. on one race they didn t do that. that is the undervote. so then they will go through and indicate who they chose and then decide, okay, we think that was actually an intentional vote even though the machine didn t notice it. ....
They would like to see included. and of course, they ve been talking a lot about the undervotes in broward county. so really their goal is to get as many votes back into play as possible, and to hope that that can increase bill nelson s vote share. there s a 12,000-some-odd vote margin between nelson and scott. so both sides have doing the spin factor, saying, of course rick scott or bill nelson will be the next senator if florida. of course, we have no idea who will be the next senator from florida as it stands right now. and a lot of experts have pointed out, we don t write as much as we used to. they don t even teach writing, cursive, in a lot of schools. so the fact that there s these mismatches may just have to do with our digital lives right now. ali vitali, i know you re going to stay there, you ll stay on top of things for us. thank you so much for that. but coming up, facebook under intense fire. a scathing report from the new york times exposing the company s ties to a ....
Polls. if you put all those together, is there a chance that would shift the margin? it still feels like it is too short. we don t have a comprehensive 67 county spreadsheet of all these numbers. florida, like most states, highly desensitized. everything is done at the county level and certified by the state later. i think that nelson has a glimmer of hope with this issue of the voter intent standard for disputed undervotes and overvotes, which will begin to become a bigger issue in the next couple of days. that is canvassing boards looking at these defective ballots, trying to divine what the voter intended. you add up some of those votes, it could get nelson closer. would that be someone that didn t fill out the bubble ....
Ballots that were put with 200 valid ones, is it not the case that those 22 or 25 ballots were then removed again, because they were not supposed to be counted with the other ones? they were they were never counted. those ballots had been separated. they had been isolated. they have not been counted to date. okay. one other question. there s going to be a lot of talk about how well you do your job. you ve talked about it. you said, i m going to stay here for the dependency of my term or maybe i ll step down, we ll see what happens with the politics of it. but when it comes right down, are you more concerned with whether or not the count or the ballot itself is going to wind up being the story when it comes to the senate race? because the ballot in your county put the senate race in the bottom left-hand corner. and it could be that one of the reasons that you have all of these undervotes in your county is because people didn t see the race because of the way the ballot was constru ....