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Nevada election officials said Wednesday they won’t announce additional voting results until Thursday morning — with the fate of the battleground state’s six Electoral College votes at stake.
The Secretary of State’s Elections Division announced that as of early Wednesday, the state had counted all the votes cast in person before and on Election Day, and all mail-in ballots received until Tuesday, CBS News reported.
“That’s it for election results updates until 9:00 am on Nov. 5. Here’s what has been counted so far: –All in-person early votes –All in-person Election Day votes –All mail ballots through Nov. 2,” it said in a tweet.
Wayne Thorley, the deputy secretary of state for elections, said poll workers still have to count “tens of thousands” of mail-in ballots.
“The difference between Biden and Trump is close to 9,000 votes,” Thorley said, according to the Las Vegas Journal Review. “I don’t know the number of outstanding mail-in ballots, but we are in the tens of thousands range. It absolutely could change (results.)”
Biden holds a slight lead over Trump – 49.2 to 48.6 percent – or about 8,000 votes, according to the Associated Press.
Republicans and President Trump’s campaign were rebuked by the state Supreme Court on an appeal aimed at stopping the count of mail-in ballots in the Las Vegas area.
The court did not stop election night counting, calling instead for written filings to be completed Monday in a case that could affect the vote tally in Clark County, a Democratic stronghold in an otherwise red state.
A live broadcast of President Trump speaking from the White House is shown on screens at an election night party in Las Vegas.APDemocrat Hillary Clinton won the state in 2016.
With Post wires
