officials. about 5,400 people have voted so far. the polls have been open an hour and a half. so far, so good. a long day ahead. a caruso win will be compared to eric adams. they are such different races. steve patterson, thank you for your reporting on this. that s it for me for this busy hour. andrea mitchell reports starts next. andrea mitchell reports starts andrea mitchell reports starts nextme and that s. how you collect coins. your money never stops working for you with merrill, a bank of america company.
it or not. hide such shenanigans. we went out and got the workers, that worked, got those to the county, to care that, we got the poll watchers that we needed. you didn t hear any claims of fraud and conniving but it s a different environment now. democrats, y all better buddha baby, it s coming. cr what does that look like? if you are in the dnc, and you read this reporting, why would you do, michael? i d be having all kinds of meetings across the state, the country, with all of my state party chairs to understand exactly what their strategies are, on the ground. what do you have in place? what the republicans complain about, in a place like michigan, they were outnumbered. there were 5000 5400 democrat poll workers, 270. that s on the party, to help
county, to care that, we got the poll watchers that we needed. you didn t hear any claims of fraud and conniving but it s a different environment now. democrats, y all better buddha baby, it s coming. what does that look like? if you are in the dnc, and you read this reporting, why would you do, michael? i d be having all kinds of meetings across the state, the country, with all of my state party chairs to understand exactly what their strategies are, on the ground. what do you have in place? what the republicans complain about, in a place like michigan, they were outnumbered. there were 5000 5400 democrat poll workers, 270. that s on the party, to help facilitate and get people interested. the parties never really done that, or they fallen off from
trump endorsed dr. mehmet oz, sent a letter over the weekend telling counties they should not accept those votes. so steve, what is the latest in the vote counts and then i don t know if you could prognosticate given this court battle. we could show you what the universe of remaining bouts is. and so right now you have oz with the lead here. you see state wide of 987 votes over mccormick. so what is left? there are approximately 200 overseas or sorry again i write this seems to happen these days. i m trying to write the number 200. there is about 200 overseas military ballots yet to be counted. they ll be counted tomorrow. there are about 800 remaining provisional ballots. they have broken exactly evenly so far between oz and mccormick. so the 800 votes, you won t expect it to swing this much either way. so this comes down to, if the number works here, about 5400
max mail in votes. you got it. so that is the key number here. and that litigation that you re talking about, i think is going to decide how close to 5400 we get in terms of mail-in votes that get counted here. the expansive reading and everything you re talking about, if you end up counting all of the ballots that didn t have the date, but did have the signature, i think you could get close to 5400 mail-in ballots and that number could come down some if they don t get counted. mccormick, he s filing that suit and doing better than oz when it comes to the mail-in ballots so he needs as many counted and if he could get them counted and he needs to win them by an even bigger clip than he s been winning by to erase the 987. but we re in that automatic recount zone. if you re within a half a point, there is an automatic recount that gets triggered.