The Nevada State Department's Elections Division says it will not update election results in the hotly contested state until Thursday, as thousands of mail-in ballots remain uncounted.
Ballots received on Election Day, provisional ballots, and other ballots still have not been counted as of early Wednesday, reports Newsweek.
The division said in a tweet Wednesday that after a day of counting all of the in-person votes and mail-in ballots that were received through Nov. 2, no further updates are coming until 9 a.m. local time Thursday.
Officials said that ballots that remain outstanding are difficult to estimate, as all voters were sent a mail ballot, but not all will vote with them.
According to the Associated Press Wednesday, Democrat nominee Joe Biden is slightly ahead of President Donald Trump, with 67% of precincts reporting and Biden so far has 49.2% of the vote, with 588,252 votes, and Trump has 48.6%, with 580,605 votes.
The eventual winner will net Nevada's 6 electoral votes.
The Nevada Independent reported early Wednesday that Democrat nominee Joe Biden is leading President Donald Trump by a narrow margin, but other major races remain too close to call.
The newspaper's editor, Jon Ralston, also reported that "tens of thousands" of mailed ballots still needed to be counted in Clark County, where Las Vegas is located. There, Biden was ahead of Trump by just over 60,000 at the paper's last reporting.
"These have dramatically favored the Dems so far by more than 2-to-1. Biden should do well there," Ralston said. "There are also tens of thousands of provisional ballots in urban Nevada and some in the rurals. Less sure of that mix, but the Clark mail, if it follows the previous pattern, may be enough for Biden."
On Monday, a Nevada judge rejected a lawsuit by Trump's reelection campaign and state GOP officials who were seeking to halt mail-in balloting in Clark County, where about 70% of Nevada's voters live and is primarily Democrat, reports NPR.
The campaign and Nevada Republicans Tuesday asked the state Supreme Court to expedite its review of the case, saying they will suffer irreparable harm if the ruling isn’t overturned.
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