Arizona’s most populous county still has more than 400,000 ballots left to count, officials said the day after the midterm elections.
“We don’t know the exact numbers, but over about 400,000 votes yet to be counted and reported,” Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates, a Republican, told reporters during a press briefing.
That includes about 86,000 early ballots that were processed late last week and need to be tabulated. It also includes another approximately 50,000 early ballots dropped off on Monday and about 17,000 ballots from in-person voting that were dropped into secure slots at the tabulators.
Voters were instructed to drop them into the slots after machines stopped working at approximately 20 percent of precincts. About 7 percent of the in-person ballots were slotted….