AZ is 99% in and has been for 2 days. How long does it take to count 1%?
I think the 99% is just the percent of votes from the voters who showed up at the polls on election day.
Last news is McSally is ahead by 17,000 votes but thousands of provisional ballots still to count, then there is the law suit the Republican Party filed on how some precincts are counting them.
My reaction is that it takes longer than usual if someone is trying to manipulate the vote.
The report I heard is that there is a controversy over the method mail in ballots are being processed.
State law says if the signature on the ballot doesn't match the reference signature on file officials can try to determine validity before the election,
but cannot take that action on ballots being processed after the election.
After the election a mismatch on the signature automatically makes the ballot invalid.
But according to the republican charge some precincts are still attempting to contact the voter to ask if they signed the ballot or not.
Republicans filed a lawsuit charging those precincts with violating the state law, asserting that the non-uniform way of processing those ballots
amounts to unequal treatment of voters in other precincts.
Based on the action filed by republicans I'm guessing it is democrat heavy precincts that are violating the law.
After all - the person deciding to further validate, or not validate, a ballot has the ballot in hand and no doubt knows if it is a vote for a democrat
or a republican. But I never heard any of that stated - it is only my suspicion.