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To get there. he had a slim chance to begin with but now the quote they're using is virtually impossible, richard. >> ally, we have the video of those people staring at a piece of paper. who are these folks? >> reporter: what you're seeing behind me in my live shot is they're counting one of the lowell races in pa-- local race beach county. when a voter doesn't fill out the ballot in the exact way they're supposed to, maybe the machine is picking up one or more votes in a certain race or no votes in a certain race, they look at the ballots by hand and try to suss out what was the voter intent....

Sure what the voter intent might have been, tie goes to the voter. but usually the voter intent is pretty apparent. that's when you have people try to talk about what they see on those ballots by hand. >> one of the issues, ali, was whether or not the federal suggestion of how to put ballots together were followed properly in terms of where you have instructions and where you have the decisions between the different candidates. and there were some developments on that i guess because the rules weren't necessarily followed, right, there in the state of florida. >> you're right. what i think you...

Mueller's questions. the pathway narrowing for the democrats to win recounts in florida. a hand recount is ordered for governor rick scott and democrat bill nelson. republican ron desantis declared victory after a machine recount did not help andrew gillum narrow the gap. that race effectively over which leaves democrats hoping for a miracle in the senate race where governor scott leads by less than 13,000 votes out of 8.2 million cast. >> senator nelson dealt another blow by the court ruling in scott's favor. a federal judge ruling guidelines for voter intent are constitutional. most florid...

8.2 million votes cast. >> senator nelson dealt another blow by the court ruling in scott's favor. a federal judge ruling guidelines for voter intent are constitutional. most florida counties did file the recounts on time. a few did not. including one heavily democratic county. the county finished counting, but missed the deadline by mere minutes. cnn's jessica dean as more from florida. >> reporter: good morning, dave and christine, from palm beach where they hope to get started on the hand recount today. let's zoom out and give you the big picture across florida. they will go through a hand ...

Matched up. we know the numbers from broward county. they didn't change that much, in fact, they were better for rick scott. it's just more about the process and making sure that each one of these voters has their voice completely heard, according to the rules. and that just didn't happen in florida this time around. >> ryan nobles, appreciate it. with me now is jeffrey toobin and david boyes, who was lead counsel for al gore in 2000. david, decides maybe some unwanted flashbacks you may be going through, what goes through your mind when you look at what's happening there over the last several...