PHOENIX — Arizona’s largest county still has a ways to go before it will have all of its early ballots counted.

Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell released an update Thursday saying there are approximately 310,000 early ballots left to be processed and tabulated. There’s also an additional estimated 55,000 provisional ballots left to be researched.

On Election Day it was announced by Maricopa County Recorder spokeswoman Elizabeth Bartholomew that a deadline could go beyond Wednesday if some races remained too close to call. Purcell said the reasoning behind the ballots taking this long to be counted is because of the current process of counting the ballots.

In the past, vote counts have had instances when they have taken about a week in the state. There have even been instances for a recount to be held, such as in August’s primary when Arizona Senate President Andy Biggs won the Republican primary by less than 30 votes.

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