The polls closed in Arizona on Tuesday, but voters will likely have to wait several more days before they know whether their next governor will be Republican Kari Lake or Democrat Katie Hobbs. That’s because more than 570,000 ballots have yet to be counted
Why More than Half a Million Ballots Remain Uncounted in the Arizona Governor's Race
It’s that last batch that appears to have blindsided Maricopa County election officials, who only received roughly 170,000 such ballots in the last presidential election. Handling so many mail ballots submitted on Election Day has thrown an element of chaos into the count, as mailed ballots typically take longer to process and tabulate. Early on Thursday, the campaigns had been expecting that Maricopa County would have tallied much of those 290,000 ballots by that evening.
“We believe that the vast majority, a huge number of those mail-in ballots that were hand-delivered on Election Day will go our way,” Lake told Fox News on Thursday. Yet even if that pans out as expected, it’s not yet clear exactly how much of a Republican cushion those votes will provide. Trump’s largest margin in 2020 was from a similar batch of 138,000 Election Day mail drop-offs, which he won by roughly 58%.
The midterm elections in Arizona got off to a tumultuous start on Tuesday morning when roughly 20% of Maricopa County’s machine tabulators used to scan ballots at polling places weren’t working; by midday, county officials said they had diagnosed and remedied the problem. According to Hobbs campaign sources, Arizona counties are the ones making the outreach to voters, while other allied liberal groups, like Mission for Arizona, are offering to assist them in the process. Arizona voters will have until Nov. 16 to fix any problems with their ballot for it to be counted, an elections official confirms to TIME.
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