ballot boxes. there s a lot of reasons to be disgusted by this process but 0 evidence of fraud. is more about incompetence than willful misconduct? somebody who lives in broward county for a very long time, has been through the process, it is totally embarrassing to anybody who lives here is that we are always the focus of attention but i want to make sure viewers understand the recount is a machine recount that is statutory compared to what it was in 2000, this is a statutory mandate, it needs to go through machine recount and reports thursday if there s any other races, senate race and agriculture race under 0..25 will have to have a manual recount which looks at the over votes where people voted twice in the same race and under votes
ivan, thank you. you re welcome. thanks. days after u.s. voters went to the polls for the mid term elections, florida is set to see a recount in three statewide races. cnn s ryan noble explains why all of the eyes are on the contest for governor and u.s. senate. reporter: the recount is officially underway here in florida. the secretary of state ordered it saturday afternoon after all the votes from all 67 counties were recorded in his office. in order for that recount to take place the margin of victory had to be less than half of a percent and that s exactly what we had in the governor s race, the u.s. senate race and the agriculture race. the recount is already underway and it will continue until thursday of next week. take a look at the numbers again at that time, and if any of these races fall within a quarter of a percent they ll do a second more exhaustive hand recount of over votes and under votes. that needs to be completed by the 18th of november and that s
florida s future. i am replacing my words of concession within uncompromised and unapologetic call that we count every single vote. workers here are going for 3.5 million pages just to get to those sorting of the one page that actually has the senate race, governor s race, commissioner of agriculture race in a couple of local and state races that are so, so very close. the estimate on how long it s going to take robert county alone to the recount about 35 hours. every county has a 3:00 p.m. thursday afternoon deadline to get their recount numbers up to tallahassee to the secretary of state s office and if any of these races is not resolved at that point, in other words, less than a quarter of a percentage point, which currently is the state of the senate race between nelson and scott. then those would go to a hand
they tried to do the same thing today in broward county as the brooks brothers riot. they tried to have people storm the supervisor of elections office. this is not the way to run the world s greatest constitutional republic, obviously. so what do you expect happens next, steve? there s going to be reporting tomorrow and then that will be sort of like the prefinal count without overseas and military ballots? correct. tomorrow will have three statewide elections that will fall under the recount process. we ll begin every ballot is run through the scanner again. ballots that have issues will be set aside. at the end of that process, we ll count again and see where we are. any race that is under the quarter of a point which will be the both the senate race and agriculture race, they ll go back and inspect all those overvotes and undervotes and there s issues in broward with the ballot, we re not sure if
legalization, for some people their ballot didn t include that initiative there was another circumstance where debbie wauserman schultz was the chair of the dnc and she had a primary challenge and her challenger wanted to go through those ballots. so yeah i think that makes her an easy target and i think it gives fauder to the republicans who have a lot riding on the line now. sflrs when you look that agriculture race verses the senate race, i want to put on the screen the broward county ballot. under the instruction ozes on the left hadf hand side of the screen, there s the senate race. far more prominent is the gubernatorial race.