unofficial rounds of results. now we also learned that hillsboro county had to do the same thing because they had a power outage there, two power outages there actually, and they simply didn t trust the numbers, so it ended up being two counties put in for their original results. a third thing that you want to keep an eye on just recently. bill nelson s attorneys have gone back in and filed a lawsuit asking for a full hand recount here in palm beach county of all votes, not just those over and under votes. wolf, a lot of pieces that are starting to come together, but the big news out of florida right now is that we are headed for a hand recount in that senate race. in the senate race, but it doesn t look like there will be a hand recount in the governor s race. that looks like that s wrapping up. i just did the math. based on the difference between what the original vote was as opposed to what the vote for senate in florida is right now, looks like scott, the republican, his lead act
that recount. the margin is .15 for clearly within that margin of all the undervotes and overvotes. we ll get to that in just a second throughout the state of florida. now, also, you mentioned that we are in the palm beach area. we are at the supervisor of elections office for palm beach county, and if you look over to my side, they have set up here for that hand recount. in anticipation of that of all the volunteers coming in here to palm beach. they also missed the deadline for the machine recount, so what does that mean? well, they were tasked with putting all the ballots through the machines again to check their numbers against the original numbers that they put in on saturday. well, the machines here are quite old, and they gave them a lot of problems. they overheated. they broke down. they were not able to make that deadline, as you mentioned, which meant that by law they had to submit their results from saturday, so those first
during the 2000 florida recount. good to have you with us. i m glad to have you on to give the nelson side of things. governor scott told the a judge this morning he recused himself from finalizing the election results. democrats have been calling for this for a while. is it enough for you? well, it s a good start. we have these nightmare experiences of jeb bush and catherine harris from 2000, and with the governor constantly accusing everyone of fraudulent activity, it would be inappropriate for him to be part of the certifying group. but it s a very good start. but when you say a start, i mean, i just want people to understand, and gail made this point last night. 67 counties in florida, each of them have state officers, they are elected locally to oversee elections. i mean, in other words, governor scott is not deciding who s overseeing the elections. he doesn t actually have a role in overseeing the elections. so what more could he do? well, no, he well, amongst
aspirations that he might have. the vermont democratic party was supposed to have events with him on friday and saturday. those have been cancelled. they say that they cancelled those events as soon as the news broke, so obviously, very serious allegations against michael avenatti. but we have not heard from him. very serious allegations. arrested and as you say, we don t know the identity of the woman involved with this, but obviously, in los angeles tonight. all right. thank you very much, m.j. lee. as we get more, obviously going to update you on that. also tonight, the clock ticking on the florida recount. the legal battles raging at this hour as the republican governor, rick scott, already declares himself the winner, appearing on capitol hill today with the newly elected members to the senate. it was like a formal thing for those who were newly elected. obviously he has not been certified as the winner but he was there. outfront now, attorney for the florida democratic part
that wraps things up for me this hour. live from washington. failed to address election i m kasie hunt in for my friend, interference and hate speech. katy tur. a reminder, please join me this the company was involved in an e sunday and every sunday for kasie d.c. 7:00 p.m. eastern elaborate lobbying effort behind the scenes. right here on msnbc. they used unsavory tactics to for now, i m going to turn things over to chris jansing delay, deny and deflect back in new york. and congrats to you and our criticism. facebook employed a republican whole capitol hill team for the opposition research firm to big award you got last night and discredit activist protesters by the fabulous work you ve been doing over the last year. thank you so much. thank you for all that you linking them to george soros. do. good afternoon, i m chris jansing in for ali velshi. 3:00 on the east coast, and that means the deadline for the florida recount is right now. all 67 counties across the state of flor