LAS VEGAS — Clark County officials still need to count nearly 15,000 mail-in ballots that were received Monday and Tuesday, county Registrar of Voters Joe Gloria said Wednesday.
Another 12,700 ballots were received Wednesday from the U.S. Postal Service that will need to be counted as well.
Gloria said all in-person votes from Election Day had been counted, except for 5,000 provisional votes that officials are still determining the validity of.
“Every piece of equipment that we have to process mail will be in use and we’ll have the staff there to staff all of the equipment, it’s hundreds,” Gloria said during a news conference Wednesday.
The county expects to have a news conference every day and release results on a daily basis, but Gloria did not specify the time of day.
A spokesperson for the secretary of state’s office said they expect to release results on the state website on a rolling basis.
Gloria said nearly 10,000 mail-in ballots were put through the cure process, where officials needed to verify the signature of the voter. More than 5,300 of those had not been cured as of Wednesday afternoon. The curing process runs through Monday, and provisional ballots will come in next Tuesday at the earliest and Wednesday at the latest.
“We’ve got staff fully focused on getting those processed from now until we report to the Secretary of State,” Gloria said.
More than 840,000 votes had been tallied in Nevada as of early Wednesday morning, which marks about 45.2% of registered voters across the state. Those numbers include those who voted in-person either during Nevada’s early voting window or on Election Day, as well as some — but not all — mail ballots that have been received by county election officials.
In Clark County, about 596,000 ballots have been counted.
The final canvass is scheduled for Nov. 18 at 1:30 p.m. Pacific time in the Clark County Commission chambers.
As of Wednesday morning, seven of Nevada’s 17 counties had caught up on counting ballots.
Officials in Carson City, Churchill, Clark, Douglas, Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Nye and Washoe said they did not expect to complete counting until at least Thursday.
Nye County will resume hand counting ballots Thursday and called for volunteers to sign up and participate in the process, Nye County Clerk Mark Kampf said in an email. Nye County had tabulated the results electronically Tuesday night to submit numbers to the secretary of state’s office, but it will use hand counting as a way to double check and audit the machines.
“Bring a friend or two to join us in the process. We have a lot more room for more volunteers who can work whatever hours they can. Let’s show the world that Nye County can do the job,” Kampf said.
Douglas County, which has 49,000 residents sitting southeast of Lake Tahoe, received thousands of paper ballots Tuesday. County clerk Amy Burgans said they hoped to finish counting Tuesday’s ballots by Wednesday evening.
“It was a long day yesterday,” administrator Georgi Harjes said Wednesday morning.
Washoe County spokesperson Bethany Drysdale said they had processed all ballots submitted through Sunday, and they hoped to finish the 20,000 sent in by mail Monday and Tuesday by the end of the day Wednesday.
Esmeralda, Lander, Lyon, Mineral, Pershing, Storey and White Pine ballot counters were caught up as of Wednesday morning, preparing for another mail delivery of ballots.
Pershing County clerk Lacey Donaldson said they finished their last six ballots Wednesday around 9 a.m.
Lincoln County officials could not be reached for comment.
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