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Filing this suit right now? does he have any chance of winning in federal court? >> a very good chance of winning. it's a basic prina you can have different standards -- can't have different standards for recounts in one county than another. bay county, happens to be republican, getting their votes recounted because of the markings they made, maybe not filling out the oval, but writing the word "yes," making other markings that are designated by florida law as establishing voter intent, then deny that to voters in palm beach county because their system isn't getting it done by the deadlines. a...

The machines. you've done some of the math there. is that enough to tilt the election? >> oh, no. in fact, if you were to take all the undervotes in the senate race, essentially used as a denominator -- sorry to be so mathematical so early in the morning. apply the votes of nelson and scott to that total votes cast, rick scott still leads. it would go from a little more 12,000 to a little under 3,000. that's just if you applied every vote that way. the likelihood that everyone who undervoted there left a little bit of a mark where they could define voter intent is very, very unlikely. to ana's...

That cold, rainy night in tallahassee when you certified the vote, i think we started around 1200 and it settled around 537. that was the marker that george bush was challenging all gore to catch. 537 votes. we went through the whole definition of voter intent 18 years ago and you really get a sense now that that's the direction where this legal challenge is headed as well. over the last 18 years, do you think florida has been able to define voter intent better in 2018 than we did in the year 2000? >> well, we're not having hanging or dangling chads this year. we've gone to a paper ballot. so ...

No votes cast in a race and a suspiciously high number. however, the best available evidence indicates it was probably bad ballot design and therefore voter error in missing the race on the ballot. there is going to be a recount. if the margin of the race remains below a quarter point then you will see a hand recount where the ballots that showed no vote for president or no vote for senate or too many votes for senate, those will be kicked out and then manually reviewed, just those extra ballots. then they will have to define voter intent. if there is a mark on that ballot, whom did that voter...

Tomorrow when the first official, unofficial results are tendered. we're going to go into a machine recount, and that could very well further alter the results because all of the under votes and over votes will be segreg e segregated out by the tabulating equipment, and if was earlier mentioned we're less than a quarter of a percent difference between the two candidates, those over votes and under votes will then be physically examined by the canvassing teams to determine whether there's some voter intent that can be gleaned. this election is not over yet. the statutes contemplate a deliberate...