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The Senate and gubernatorial races in Arizona still await conclusive results as hundreds of thousands of ballots await processing and tabulation. The process, which is notoriously slow, is made all the more frustrating by a lack of updates over the past day and night. Officials blame time-consuming ballot processing requirements.
“I think we’ll see the lion’s share here wrap up by early next week,” said Bill Gates, chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, in a CNN interview around 1 p.m. on Nov. 10.
Maricopa is by far the most populous county in the state and the one with most of the yet-to-be-counted ballots—over 400,000.
By noon after Election Day, Arizona managed to count over 1.8 million ballots, showing Democrat Sen. Mark Kelly ahead by about 5 percentage points of Republican Blake Masters and Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs about half a percent ahead of Republican Kari Lake in the gubernatorial race.
About seven hours later, another 100,000 votes were added to the count with little change to the results. At that point, the Secretary of State’s office estimated more than 600,000 ballots were still to be counted, including over 300,000 early votes still waiting to be verified for signature match and other attributes.
