Senate races in Arizona, Nevada still not called; Democrats hold slim leads

Three days aft Election Day connected Nov. 5, the U.S. Senate races successful the occidental states of Arizona and Nevada stay undecided.

Democratic candidates successful some races person maintained a flimsy lead, offering anticipation for Democratic person Chuck Schumer that his incoming number mightiness not shrink further. Republicans person flipped 4 legislature seats truthful acold and are acceptable to commencement adjacent twelvemonth successful the majority. 

As of Friday morning, incumbent Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., leads her Republican challenger Ret. Army Capt. Sam Brown by much than 17,500 votes, oregon 1.2 percent points. The deadline for mail-in ballots to get and beryllium counted successful Nevada is Saturday. With tens of thousands of ballots perchance outstanding, The Associated Press said connected Thursday that the contention is inactive excessively adjacent to call.

So far, Rosen has 665,840 votes, oregon 47.76%. Brown has earned 648,292 votes, oregon 46.50%. Nearly 96% of Nevada precincts person reported their results. 

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Republican Ret. Army Capt. Sam Brown is challenging incumbent Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev. for her Senate seat.  (Reuters)

"There are inactive tens of thousands of uncounted ballots successful the contention for U.S. Senate, and the candidates are separated by little than 1 percent," the Brown run said connected Thursday. "There are besides thousands of ballots which request to beryllium cured. Sam Brown is committed to ensuring each legally cast, valid ballot is counted."

On Wednesday, Rosen said, "We consciousness bully astir the results we're seeing, but determination are inactive thousands of votes to beryllium counted. Our ideology takes time, and I'm assured that we volition triumph arsenic much votes travel in." 

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Kari Lake and Ruben Gallego are competing for the unfastened Senate spot successful Arizona. (Reuters)

In neighboring Arizona, lone 76.05% of precincts are reporting. Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego, a Marine, presently leads Republican Kari Lake, a erstwhile TV quality anchor, by much than 43,000 votes. The victor of this contention volition win retiring Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, an autarkic who formerly was a Democrat. She near the enactment aft clashing with its far-left constituent and decided against moving for re-election arsenic an autarkic erstwhile it became wide determination was nary way for her to bash so.

The Arizona results are pouring successful slowly, mostly due to the fact that of however the authorities counts votes and the complexity of this year's ballot. The delays were expected to beryllium astir pronounced successful Maricopa County, the state's largest county. 

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An predetermination idiosyncratic removes a ballot from an envelope to number and inspect the pages wrong the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center (MCTEC) connected Election Day, Nov. 5, 2024, successful Phoenix, Arizona. Pairs of predetermination workers from antithetic governmental parties unfastened mail-in ballot envelopes containing voted ballots aft they person completed signature verification.  (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

"For the archetypal clip since 2006 present successful Maricopa County, we person a two-page ballot, and we person races connected some sides of those," Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates told Fox 10 Phoenix past month. "We’re talking astir 4 antithetic sides of contests, seventy-nine contests connected average. We expect that it volition instrumentality radical a small spot longer."

Officials said a GOP-backed authorities instrumentality that adds other steps to verify ballots mightiness besides origin delays. 

The instrumentality requires canvass workers to hold for the polls to adjacent earlier counting begins. Then, each greenish envelope ballots that were dropped disconnected request to beryllium manus counted earlier they are delivered to the elections center, wherever the signatures are verified, and the votes are counted. 

If the predetermination bureau finds an mistake connected a voter's ballot, the elector is permitted 5 days to hole it. Election workers accidental it could instrumentality up to 2 weeks for each ballot to beryllium cured and counted.

Mail ballots besides request to beryllium scanned, sorted and signature-verified earlier they tin beryllium counted. And voters whitethorn instrumentality message ballots astatine immoderate clip earlier polls adjacent connected Election Day. 

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"The astir important happening you tin beryllium doing for the adjacent fewer days is helping [Turning Point Action] cure these ballots and marque definite each ballot counts successful Arizona," Lake posted connected X connected Thursday. 

The AP reported determination are inactive 100 of thousands of ballots near to number successful Arizona, including astir fractional a cardinal successful Maricopa County. Officials are presently counting aboriginal votes that arrived successful October. Until much ballots are counted, the contention remains excessively aboriginal to call.