Arizona and Nevada have become the homes of the endless elections. Thousands of ballots from both states had yet to be counted Thursday, with a pair of crucial Senate races stuck in limbo. In Arizo…
Thousands of ballots from both states had yet to be counted Thursday, with a pair of crucial Senate races stuck in limbo.
If the parties split the states, Senate control would come down to a Dec. 6 runoff in Georgia between Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker.The delays are down to the heavy use of mail-in voting and drop boxes in both states. In Arizona, voting by mail has been a bipartisan practice for years, and many people wait until the last minute to return their ballots.
Lake, who has endorsed former President Donald Trump’s claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him, went on to suggest state officials were “slow-rolling” her potential win. One Arizona-based Republican political operative claimed Trump himself was responsible for the slow count by telling his supporters in the state not to trust the mail-in voting system.. “If you send [ballots] in ahead of time, they have time to process them. But if you drop them off on the day of, what the f— do you expect?”when about 17,000 ballots
Officials in Clark County reported late Wednesday that 56,900 ballots were collected from drop boxes on Election Day, while another 12,700 arrived by mail on Wednesday and would not be counted until at least Thursday.
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