More than 50,000 mail-in ballots still need to be counted in Nevada’s most populous county, delaying election results for at least another day, Clark County Registrar of Voters Joe Gloria said Friday.
Of the 50,030 mail ballots, an estimated 15,900 will be sent for tabulation Friday. More than 12,000 were counted Thursday night.
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“We’re getting to the tail-end of what we need to do,” Gloria said during his daily press conference.
There are also an estimated 40,000 other ballots that still need to be counted across the state. According to Nevada law, the state can continue to accept mail-in ballots until Saturday as long as they were postmarked by Nov. 8, Election Day. The deadline to count all mail-in ballots is Tuesday.
Clark County, which includes Las Vegas and Reno, has the largest share of outstanding ballots in the state.
The Democratic Party’s path to holding the U.S. Senate has come down to the results in a handful of states including Nevada and Arizona, which have not released their final tallies.
In Nevada, the Senate race between Democratic incumbent Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and GOP challenger Adam Laxalt has been neck and neck. As of Friday afternoon, Laxalt was ahead of Cortez Masto by about 9,000 votes.
Laxalt, who served as the state’s attorney general from 2015 to 2019, has been endorsed by former President Donald Trump. Laxalt co-led Trump’s unsuccessful 2020 election campaign in Nevada. Following his defeat, Laxalt claimed without evidence there was large-scale fraud at play and tried to overturn the election results.
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Cortez Masto is considered to be one of the most vulnerable Democrats up for reelection this year.
