constitutional, it is. the hand recount here follows a machine recount that didn t count because broward county submitted results 2 minutes late. elections supervisor brenda snipes believes everything s been going great on her watch. i believe we were able to accomplish, what we did accomplish in the period of time we were given. the official excuse is that an elections official didn t know how to use the web site to send them to the state, that means the prerecount total stands which is better in broward for the democrat nelson and worse for rick scott whose campaign is crying foul. the dog never ate your homework, the same staff that successfully uploaded broward county s results to the state web site on saturday somehow forgot how to upload to the web site by thursday, i am
so the originals will be made official and the words tonight of a not so happy staffer, i worked my off or nothing. the supervisor of elections blames the machines. i will explain it to say that i believe strongly it wasn t not a human effort, it was mechanical. so we are required to present a report to the secretary of state and that s exactly what i m going to report. and speak out because of that breakdown in the machines, senator nelson is suing for a hand recount of all ballots in palm beach county. attorney marc elias with the campaign said this, we have sued palm beach county on the florida secretary of state to require a hand count of all ballots in the county due to systematic machine failure during the machine recount. the hand count will now get fully underway here in palm beach at 11:00 a.m.
that triggered these counts are tiny. you look at half a percentage point will trigger a machine recount, a quarter percentage point will trigger a hand recount. in a state as big as florida, these are huge numbers of votes. ron desantis has 33,000 votes more than andrew gillum for the governor s race and as peter was just saying, there are 12,600 votes more for governor scott than there are for his democratic opponent bill nelson. now, that 779 votes would have extended rick scott s lead by just 6 1/2%. these are very small amounts of change. i don t think that i think it s very it would be appropriate for people to think wait a second, you really expect to overturn 12,600 votes? if that were to happen i think more suspicions would be raised. jon: so they re supposed to have this hand recount finished by sunday, isn t that correct? sunday at noon.
says we have sued palm beach on the florida secretary of state to require a hand count of all ballots in that county due to systematic machine failure during the machine recount. what does that mean? is it not just the over and under? they want every ballot counted by hand? that s correct. as you know, i m not secretary of state now and i really don t know all the details but it seems as though that s what they are requesting. shannon: i can t imagine how long that would actually take and is it something that ever happened under your watch? it s really important i think in the overview of the recount is i think the most important thing that can occur is to follow the law as it s written. when you start having courts interfere or lawyers or politicians, the unintended and consequent this work out the way you want and lawmakers have spent months, years reviewing things. when we wrote election reform, it became a model for the nation. to arbitrarily change in midstream when he want
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