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. that's what they're trying to figure out. did someone put an x when they should have pububbled it in, di they put hearts or stars? in the instance where it looks like a tie, they're not quite