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This is the live look you're looking at here how it is set up guys there's 100 table there's six people were table. two are election officials two are republicans two democrat and they're only counting the over and under votes that is meaning they're marked too much or didn't mark enough. and what you're hearing a lot about is voter intent of them as lawyers contest them and if you do math you figure -- they've got about we anticipate about about 30,000 under votes, it will take all of today perhaps all of tomorrow. but we should have some indication of how much of contested ballots are coming...

And under votes. they'll be judging intent. you guys showed that ballot earlier. one fully circled and one kind of circled. now officials have to look at that and decide what the vote means. not an easy task. >> sandra: an op-ed on this. the headline florida has chance to redeem itself. florida officials must examine impartially the intent of voters on each ballot rejected in the machine count. republicans should embrace such intense scrutiny of voter intent. >> i'm fine for that. both shelby and david are saying what i was really trying to underscore. we need a transparent count. i think if y...

Suggesting who they want to vote for but that's not the way you're supposed to do it. or in some cases, they just fill in what looks like maybe above or below. but they're not actually getting the person they want to get. so all of that is not calculated by the computer. that means you now have to have somebody visually looking at it. and those sitting at the table can argue over whether it was a vote or not and it goes to the canvassing board who will look it over. reminds you of 2000 where people were looking at the voter intent. the iconic image where the board member is holding up the ball...

Recount and now they will do a hand held recount and see what other counties, palm beach county, included show there. jessica, before i go you're getting more information. >> reporter: yeah. i wanted to show you this image that we were talking about because over vote and under vote can kind of be a confusing term. we want to give people an idea of what they are looking at right here behind me. the image you're looking at that's what is called and over vote see a bubble is filled completely in in one case and at the top there's a bubble hard for the machines to read those, they don't really alw...

Didn't vote in the senate race were double voted. and there is a very specific law for what voter intent is. if you circle rick scott or bill nelson, that is fine, but you have to have done it throughout the ballot. the machine won't read it. they want to throughout that standard and just let it be -- i don't know what. >> tucker: can you change the standard after the voters? >> that's my concern. you say there's a problem with the lawsuit, the legislator is there. but have a judge coming and i and also florida law after the election, we're going to change the rules, in hopes of influencing th...