24 million votes. Think about the vast apparatus of humans and machines it's going to take to recount 24 million votes by Thursday.

The recounting begins. It is official.

Next deadline, Thursday, you say you're good.

I say that all the resources we have are being put to bear and Dr. Snipes has every intention that we're going to meet that deal.

One fact is that Rick Scott isn't interested in making sure every lawful vote is counted.

And the second is that he's using his power as governor to try to undermine the voting process.

You have already heard that in Florida,

the elections for governor, Senate,

and state agricultural commissioner are all so close,

they demand a recount.

First by machine, maybe eventually by hand.

But this recount, it's also a kind of race.

So they're recounting three races at once?

No, they can't do it. Are we rolling now?

Yeah.

Okay. So...

Rick Hassan wrote a book called The Voting Wars.

He's been thinking about how elections work in the United States since Bush v. Gore back in 2000.

He says, what's happening in Florida right now?

It's a sort of mission impossible.

One county's already flat out said, we just can't recount all these votes by Thursday. No way.

Well, all right. So the statute says, if you can't get it done in time, then the earlier totals

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