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Expected. when you see exactly what happened with more than 1.2 million alabamians participating, this is a record participation effort and the people of alabama are to be applauded for their encouragement and support of bothth candidates and both campaigns. >> shannon: we've talked a lot about it. not only a special election, a special specialci election. it's part of a run off now and there been so many competing stories and scandals in all these kind of things. and that o gets us to tonight. you and i've had many conversations as this has unfold in the last few weeks about writing votes and...

Tally for one of the but actually gave doug jones the huge advantage, the win here. >> certainly looks that way. one of the things i think needs to be accepted as the people of alabama were trying to make a statement with those writing votes and they wanted to make those votes were recorded and documented. still it's always interesting to me to see that data when it comes. we see the other names in the effort people made to go to the pulse on a day like today and not vote for one of the two main candidates. we look forward to that. when you anticipate that information will be available and whe...

Vote on the day when they knew their writing and probably wouldn't matter, it seems like quite a statement. >> it is. it's important to note that all those writing votes will be documented and recorded and printed. we will understand who receive thosese votes and what that will mean in the final difference. we have sent instructions to the probate judges a couple times. we will send them again tonight to make sure they know those votes are supposed to be counted, documented and recorde recorded. we will have those in the information received by our office toward the end of the week. >> shannon...