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vo vo voting machines? thank you for having me and having this important conversation. we re really just seeing the tip of the iceberg for the numerous race in which the former president and his most ardent supporters tried to block the will of the people in 2020. we had heard of this and many of the other things, this is really what i lived through for the two months as we worked to protect the results of our election against all of these attempts. we have two things in fwmichiga one a very robust audit system, we executed 250 audits that affirmed the machine counts and the paper ballots were indeed an accurate reflection of the will of the people, but we were also prepared in conversation with law enforcement to ensure the constitution was followed, that our election clerks were protected, and that citizens also knew that we had already done a very public verification of our voting machines prior to
increased by 41 votes. originally he was ahead by 12,562 votes. now he s ahead by 12,603 votes. statewide. so he s gone up by 41 votes, but they are still going to go ahead, jessica, with a manual a manual hand held recount. that s right. so let s talk about those those that manual recount and what that actually is. i mentioned that we re looking at over ballots and under ballots. they are exactly what they sound like. an over ballot, and i believe we have an image that s an example of an over ballot. that s where the machine looks like reads it, let me tell you what it looks like. when the machine counts doesn t know what to do because let s say someone bubbled in next to bill nelson and then kind of had a scratch next to scott or vice versa. it can t read that and it s an over vote and and unvote is the when they voted in all the other race but didn t vote in that one particular race so that s why by
margin after this hand count to call our own. stays below stays below the treating cancer is more than our mission. it s our passion. hand count threshold, the hand expert medicine works here. count will go on, there s a three day window on that but the cancer treatment centers of america. truth is, at that point it s appointments available now. really a political decision for senator nelson as to how he wants to play this out for his own legacy because the truth is, that hand count only looks out over votes and under votes and there is not a legitimate scenario that s enough to change the outcome. harris: let me remind everybody what we are talking about in terms of the over/under vote. the over is when the machine counts at more once and the under is when you are simply didn t get counted by the machine but i don t know that s necessarily what they are trying to do here. they are just recounting and votes have been found in if you call newday usa.eowner and need money for your fa