AP calls Biden the winner in Nevada

The Associated Press declared Joe Biden the both the winner in Nevada’s presidential race and overall victor on Saturday, but election officials in the Silver State will continue to count votes until at least Wednesday.

Nevada’s six electoral votes will go to Biden.

The Nevada secretary of state updated the statewide vote count for the presidential race Saturday morning.

In Nevada, Biden has a lead of 25,699 votes with 642,604 votes to Trump’s 616,905 votes — 49.91 percent to 47.92 percent.

Biden led by 22,657 votes on Friday afternoon.

Clark County Registrar Joe Gloria said in a Saturday morning news conference that another vote count update from the state’s most populous county will release sometime Saturday afternoon.

Gloria said the Saturday morning update included about 23,000 mail ballots, and workers are currently counting about 39,000 more. Those mail ballots are expected to be counted by Sunday.

In addition, there are about 60,000 provisional ballots that will be reported to the secretary of state’s office on Monday. Once any duplicates or improperly cast ballots are rooted out, the state will send the county a final report, which Gloria said can be used to count the provisionals by Thursday.

He provided a partisan breakdown of these provisional ballots: 21,490 Democrats, 19,907 Republicans and 19,010 nonpartisans.

Those voters who needed to show identification in order to have their ballot counted had until Friday night to do so. Gloria said he was not aware how many of the 44,000 of these ballots had been fixed but should know more Sunday.

There are also about 2,300 ballots still in the cure process due to unsigned envelopes or signatures that do not match county records. Voters have until Thursday to cure their ballots.

Gloria also addressed nationwide pressure on Nevada to count faster, noting the state has only had months to adjust to a huge increase in mail ballots, unlike other western states like Oregon, Washington and Colorado that have had infrastructure in place for years.

“We simply don’t have the equipment, the facilities, the staff that have been trained in that area to keep up with the pace (in those states).”

He thanked both county and state elected officials, however, for providing his office the support needed to make Thursday’s counting deadline.

Gloria noted that since he began doing daily news conferences, his office has received some reports alleging fraudulent or improper voting. He said these will be investigated after the election canvass.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

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