just like in the fall we called in the fbi and called in gbi when we heard all these allegations what was happening in fulton county in the absentee process and state farm arena and want to make sure we had lots of eyes on and independent law enforcement agencies. you ve been the victim of quite the harassment campaign. you know what our political polarization has done to our politics. what misinformation has done. i m just curious, has your view of public service changed given just how much misinformation has probably made your life miserable? well, back in really january, february of 2020 when i said to everyone was that coming out to see our new machines that we were putting in place with the verifiable paper ballot i understood we live in polarized times and it s important we got
regressive voting laws and your states too. i previously uctatalked about h restrictive pennsylvania voting is. you can only vote on election day itself here. my state s absentee process is historically restrictive. provable cause, religious observance or swear you ll be physically absent from your town on election day. even philly s firefighters and emts can t vote absentee just because they re working around the clock in the same prince palt. if you re able to vote in person on election day, you must go to your polling place, void your absentee ballot and vote there. i was scheduled to cover the midterms for cnn.
and vote against him or because of the absentee process where votes have come in and can t be changed and tilted in his way. i don t think we can know ever how that shakes out. i thought gianforte s apology was appropriate. i thought it was late. i m surprised he waited until after the election. it looks like he had the appearance to see how it went first. you know, he did the right thing. he will still face a misdemeanor assault charge in court. that is appropriate. this is outrageous to attack a reporter asking a question. it shows he is not ready for primetime if he wants to be congress member dealing with policy. you know, you have the house speaker paul ryan who spoke about this appropriately. he said this never happened. obviously. so many obvious points about this. i think it is so unfortunate you
all happens. this is pretty exciting stuff for you. yes. this is the nerve center for our absentee process. reporter: we should note as well that they are still taking in absentee ballots, right? they can actually hand in an absentee ballot until the polls close tomorrow night, so they will be counting them even past election day. back to you guys. randi kaye in orlando. a, that was very very cool. b, the footage of people in florida counting ballots in back rooms is something that gives people a nervous reaction. leaving that aside. shortly president obama takes the stage for hillary clinton. he s going to be in ann arbor, michigan. michigan is a state that hasn t voted for a republican since 1988. looking at live pictures of that stage in ann arbor. go, blue. we will bring it to you live.
how well does the name need to be spelled to count. that s one of the legal issues we expect both sides will face off as this count continues, so write-ins, the count begins tomorrow and today begins the absentee process, the count of those ballots which i believe there are more than 30,000 expected at this point and there could be more. and that certainly is something that miller is looking to to help close his margin with murkowski at this point. jon: lisa murkowski, obviously one of the big political dynasties of alaska politics but joe miller had the support of former governor sarah palin and tea party support as well. how many ballots would have to be thrown out, all together, for joe miller to win this race? that s the tricky math question, because we still have the absentee ballots coming in. assuming everything stays flat, remains the same and we have this 13 1/2 thousand