Thursday 10 November 2022 11:11 PM Votes in Arizona and Nevada may not be fully counted until NEXT WEEK trends now
Votes in Arizona and Nevada may not be fully counted until next week, election officials in the two states warned.
However, both states are expected to release updated tallies later Thursday night.
By Thursday afternoon, election workers in Arizona's largest county, Maricopa, had yet to start processing the approximately 290,000 mail-in ballots that were dropped off at polling locations on Election Day. Overall, around 660,000 votes remain outstanding.
Arizona is expected to release updated numbers Thursday night.
Those numbers will be from mail-in ballots received on Saturday, Sunday and most of Monday, CNN reported.
Another 17,000 so-called 'box three' ballots - election day ballots that wouldn't go through the tabulators properly - are also currently being counted in Maricopa County. Those numbers aren't expected to be released Thursday night.
Arizona is the host of two races with nationwide repercussions.
Democrats need to hold onto two of the three outstanding Senate races - Arizona, Nevada or Georgia in order to keep their majority.
In Arizona, incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly is about five points ahead of challenger Blake Masters.
'We remain confident that we will win this race,' a Kelly spokesperson told CNN.
The Arizona gubernatorial race is much tighter, with Democrat Katie Hobbs around 16,000 votes ahead of Republican Kari Lake.
Lake, a Trump acolyte, has already pushed that the election results could be fraudulent.
In Nevada's Senate contest, Republican Adam Laxalt narrowly leads incumbent Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto.
But election officials in Clark County - the seat of Las Vegas and home to three-quarters of the state's population - must wait for mail-in ballots postmarked as late as Tuesday, meaning a final count will not be announced until next week.
Arizona's Republican gubernatorial hopeful Kari Lake is trailing Democrat Katie Hobbs in her race by around 16,000 votes, as hundreds of thousands of votes still need to be tallied
The Arizona and Nevada Senate races have yet to be called, while Georgia heads to a December runoff
Arizona's Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly is leading his Republican rival, while Nevada's Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto is behind Republican Adam Laxalt in her race
GOP challenger Adam Laxalt (left) is ahead in the Nevada Senate race, while Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly is ahead of Republican Blake Masters in Arizona
Ballots are still pouring in.
Officials have until Nov. 17 to finish the counting and submit a report to the Nevada secretary of state's office, according to state law.
Like Arizona, Nevada is also expected to release new tallies Thursday night.
Meanwhile, while the GOP is expected to win back the House of Representatives - it just hasn't happened yet, as a predicted 'red wave' never materialized.
On Thursday, Democrats picked up a seat in New Mexico where Republican Rep. Yvette Herrell was defeated by Democrat Gabe Vasquez.
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