Gloria said there were over 5,500 of those in Clark County, but not every one of them will ultimately be ruled valid. There are over 7,000 of those ballots in Clark.Īdditionally, provisional ballots - for voters who registered at the polling place, for example - likely won’t be validated until Wednesday of next week. Gloria also noted that through the end of Monday, voters can “cure” defective ballots - that is, if a ballot comes back unsigned, or election officials are unable to match the signature on the ballot to the one on the voter rolls, voters have an opportunity to prove their identity and get their ballot counted. In Clark, for example, an additional 12,700 ballots were received from Postal Service officials on Wednesday, but just over 600 came in on Thursday. 12, will also be counted, but it is hard to project that total. New mail ballots are also still arriving: Nevada ballots that have a USPS postmark by Election Day, but are delivered to election officials by Nov. The county plans to publish results from a new tranche of counted ballots once a day going forward, which are expected to come sometime in the evening. Gloria said he expected the vast majority of those to be tallied by Saturday. In a press conference Thursday afternoon, Clark County registrar of voters Joe Gloria, the chief election official there, said the county still had over 50,000 votes that need to be counted. Nevada’s two most populous counties - Democratic-leaning Clark County, home of Las Vegas, and battleground Washoe County, home of Reno - have at least tens of thousands of outstanding ballots to be counted, but the exact number is not currently known. But there is still a long way to go in the state, and Laxalt’s advantage is tenuous because of a glut of potentially Democratic-leaning outstanding ballots. Laxalt leads with more than 80 percent of the expected vote counted. Catherine Cortez Masto is facing off with Republican Adam Laxalt in Nevada. If either party sweeps those two states, it will take control of the Senate regardless of what happens in Georgia next month.ĭemocratic Sen. That gives Democrats 48 seats and Republicans 49 - meaning whichever party wins two of the three outstanding contests in Arizona, Georgia - which is headed to another runoff - and Nevada will control the Senate.Īrizona and Nevada are the biggest question marks, with significant numbers of votes still to be counted in both states. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) secured reelection late Wednesday morning.
The Senate comes down to two key swing states - and maybe a runoffĭemocrat John Fetterman flipped Pennsylvania early Wednesday morning, giving his party 48 seats, while Sen.
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