Midterm Elections: Key contests hangs in the balance as states count votes

• Arizona and Nevada are still counting hundreds of thousands of unprocessed ballots.
• The races to determine control of the Senate in Arizona and Nevada have not yet been declared.
• The makeup of the House will also depend on a number of uncalled congressional elections.

As both states race to process hundreds of thousands of unprocessed ballots, crucial races to determine control of the Senate in Arizona and Nevada have not yet been declared.

Before enough votes are counted in those states to establish who won the Senate, it may still be hours or days. The House’s makeup when the new Congress is convened will also depend on a number of uncalled congressional elections.

Republican worry about the election results, where an anticipated Republican wave never materialized, hasn’t been reduced by the unofficial results or the ongoing ambiguity about who would control Congress next year.

As the count goes on, remember the following:

Where things stand in Arizona and Nevada and the reasons why the vote-counting process is taking so long: The method that each state processes ballots that were not cast in person on Election Day is the main cause of the delay in the vote count.

For instance, there are still almost 600,000 ballots in Arizona that need to be counted. About 400,000 of those votes, or the majority, were cast in Maricopa County, the county with the highest population in the state and home to Phoenix.

On Election Day, over 290,000 of those votes were left at voting locations, according to Bill Gates, the chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, who spoke on media on Thursday. There will be a delay in tabulating since those ballots must be processed before they can be counted.

Additionally, the county still needs to process around 17,000 ballots that were attempted to be counted on Election Day but were not read by the tabulator due to a printer problem.

In Nevada, state law permits the receipt of mail-in ballots through Saturday as long as the postmark was made on Election Day. This indicates that ballots are still being sent to counties for counting.

More than 12,000 mailed votes were sent from the post office on Wednesday to Clark County, the state’s largest county and home to Las Vegas, according to Clark County registrar Joe Gloria.

Additionally, counties in Nevada have tens of thousands of mail-in ballots that were deposited in drop boxes at voting locations on Election Day. According to Clark County, the drop boxes used on election day held close to 57,000 mail ballots.

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