Nevada elections could be called as late as Saturday

Nevada and Arizona on Thursday were counting votes in a race that could determine which party controls the Senate. Nevada state law gives officials until Saturday to process mail-in ballots. Nevada wasn’t called in the 2020 presidential election until the Saturday after the election day. With more than 80 percent of the Nevada votes counted, Democratic incumbent Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and Republican Adam Laxalt are still within a few percentage points of each other. The Georgia Senate race is headed to a runoff election to be held on Dec. 6. Right now, Republicans have 49 seats and Democrats have 48 seats in the Senate. In the House, Republicans hold 211 seats while Democrats hold 192.

What’s happening in Arizona? The race between Democrat Mark Kelly and Republican Blake Masters on Thursday was within a few percentage points. In the state’s most populous county, Maricopa County, about 17,000 ballots were affected by a printing mishap that prevented vote counters from reading some ballots. County officials did not give a timeline for counting the ballots. 

Dig deeper: Read Joseph Backholm’s column in WORLD Opinions on what the election said about America.