Washoe County, the second most populous county in Nevada, said it still has 22,000 ballots to count and hopes to pass most of them by Friday.
“I think we should be able to get most of them done. There’s likely to be a small amount flowing on Saturday,” Jamie Rodriguez, Washoe County interim voter registration, told CNN.
The county includes the city of Reno.
Of the remaining 22,000 votes, about 20,000 were mailed, Rodriguez said. Another 1,914 provisional ballots.
Rodriguez said the county eliminated 400 mail-in ballots on Thursday — about two-thirds of the mail-in ballots the county received on Thursday — because they were postmarked after Election Day. “Most of the mail that we receive (Thursday) is postmarked on the 9th,” Rodriguez said, referring to the day after Election Day.
Rodriguez says that in the past, some voters have mailed their ballots on Election Day – but after receiving the last mail of the day, causing ballots to be postmarked for the next day, which This makes them ineligible to be counted.
The 22,000 ballots still being counted had been postmarked, she said.
On Friday and Saturday, there’s still a chance the county, like all counties in Nevada, could receive more ballots that were postmarked on Election Day. Saturday is the last day ballots are allowed to arrive.
Washoe is expected to update its vote totals at 11 p.m. ET Friday night.
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