It may be a while before Arizona voters know who won the tight U.S. Senate race between Republican Martha McSally and Democrat Kyrsten Sinema and it’s likely to come down to the early ballots, which were still being counted.
“We’re expecting approximately 500,000 to 600,000 (early ballots to be counted), most of them being in Maricopa County,” Garrett Archer, senior analyst with the Arizona Secretary of State’s office, told KTAR News 92.3 FM. It could take the rest of the week or longer.
“It’s not unheard of for a general election … to take seven to 10 days to get through all the early ballots and provisionals,” he said.
“We should start seeing results (by Thursday).”
Archer said the county-by-county process of tallying the early ballots and provisional votes was “fairly resource intensive.” – READ MORE