Tens of thousands of mail ballots are still being counted in Georgia’s U.S. Senate runoff elections, an elections official said Wednesday morning. Over 57,500 votes are still being processed by counties, including nearly 18,000 in DeKalb County, Gabriel Sterling with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office said. The numbers Sterling gave appeared to clash in at least one place with county officials. Richard Barron, Fulton County’s elections director, said shortly before the briefing that nearly 7,500 absentee ballots were left to process. Sterling said Fulton had just 5,294 left. State officials have asked counties to get all of the mail ballots counted by 1 p.m., but some counties will not meet the deadline, Sterling predicted. “These folks are all tired. They’ve had a long day, and a long week, and a long month,” he said. Thousands of provisional ballots also need to be counted—Sterling guessed that the number is …