Sinema’s lead against McSally extends to more than 32,000 votes
New numbers from the Arizona Secretary of States website shows Democrat Kyrsten Sinema has extended her lead over Republican Martha McSally by 32,640 votes as of 6 p.m. Sunday.
The Arizona Secretary of States office is still receiving ballots from counties throughout Arizona, as all counties have until Nov. 14 to verify and process any remaining early ballots that were dropped off at recorder’s offices in Arizona on election day.
The extension for counting early ballots comes on the heels of a settlement reached between both political parties after the Yuma, Navajo, Apache, and Maricopa County Republican parties filed a lawsuit against the Secretary of State and all county recorder offices.
UPDATE 11/10/18
U.S. Senate nominee Kyrsten Sinema is now leading to over 32,000 votes over Republican candidate Martha Mc Sally.
The Arizona Secretary of State’s Office is still processing uncounted ballots throughout multiple counties in the state and provided the updated numbers around 5 p.m. Friday.
All counties in Arizona have until Nov. 14 to verify and process any uncounted early ballots, according to the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office.
Visit KYMA.com/election-results as we continue to update the numbers.
UPDATE 11/09/18
U.S. Senate nominee Krysten Sinema has extended her lead by almost 21,000 votes over her Republican opponent Martha McSally.
The Arizona Secretary of State’s Office is still processing uncounted ballots throughout multiple counties in the state and provided the updated numbers around 5 p.m. Friday.
All counties in Arizona have until Nov. 14 to verify and process any uncounted early ballots, according to the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office.
Visit KYMA.com/election-results as we continue to update the numbers.
UPDATE 11/08/18
Democrat Kyrsten Sinema has jumped ahead of Republican Martha McSally in the Arizona senate race.
The Maricopa County Recorder’s Office released new results Thursday evening showing Congresswomen Sinema with almost 10,000 more votes than Rep. McSally.
Visit KYMA.com/election-results as we continue to update the numbers.
The Maricopa County Recorders Office plans to release another batch of uncounted ballots around 5 p.m. Friday.
Arizona law states that a recount can be triggered only when the leading two candidates are separated by 0.1 percent of the vote or less.
ORIGINAL STORY
Every vote counts in the race for the first female senator to represent Arizona. Republican candidate Martha McSally holds a one percent lead over Democrat Krysten Sinema with thousands of ballots still uncounted throughout Arizona.
The Yuma County Recorder’s Office has nearly 6,000 ballots that remain uncounted, according to Kevin Tunell , communications director for the county recorder’s office. The county will continue counting the ballots on Thursday, Tunell said.
The case is the same throughout other areas of the state.
Maricopa County, where Democrat Krysten Sinema has served in Congressional District 2, has 427,000 ballots still left uncounted, according to Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes.
Republican Martha McSally has been representing District 9 in Pima County where there are still 80,000 ballots that are being counted, according to Pima County election officials.
