Here's When More Election Results From Arizona Will Be Released

ARIZONA — With the Nov. 3 election still underway in Arizona, several counties will release a new batch of vote counts Thursday.

The Arizona Republic estimates that nearly 470,000 votes still need to be counted in the state, the bulk of which come from Maricopa County.

Maricopa County Recorder's Office spokesperson Megan Gilbertson previously told Patch that new counts will be reported daily at 7 p.m. until all votes are counted. Voters can also watch a 24-hour live-stream of the vote count. Check here to see if your ballot has been counted.

Pima County will also be releasing a new batch of results Thursday afternoon or evening, the county announced on Twitter.

The Pima County Elections Department estimates that it still has between 5,000 and 8,000 early ballots and approximately 18,000 provisional ballots left to verify.

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Fox News and the Associated Press have both projected Democratic challenger Joe Biden to win Arizona and its 11 Electoral College votes in the early hours of Wednesday morning, but votes are still being counted and the final tally likely won't be done for days. President Donald Trump won Arizona in 2016 over Hillary Clinton by 3.5 points.

The latest results from Arizona showed Biden's lead narrow. He currently has 1,469,341 votes while Trump has 1,400,951 votes.

In Arizona, mail-in ballots are allowed to be counted ahead of Election Day but county recorders were not able to release any data until 8 p.m. — an hours after the polls close. Additionally, not all of the ballots can be counted until every voter has had the chance to correct the signatures on their ballots so they can be properly verified. Voters have five days to do so, which means that all ballots won't be counted until Nov. 10.

Ballots had to be received by 7 p.m. on Election Day to be counted. Those in line when the polls closed were able to cast their ballots, with many lines forming Tuesday night throughout the state.

Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs previously warned that the election likely won't be over on Nov. 3 due to historic voter turnout and an influx of mail-in ballots amid the coronavirus pandemic.

"As much as we all want to see the winner on election night in those races, it's just not going to happen. Elections are complicated," Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs said during an Oct. 14 news conference.