Midterms 2022: Results and developments of the midterm elections in the live blog

Midterms 2022: Results and developments of the midterm elections in the live blog

The counting of the votes for the midterm elections in the particularly competitive US state of Nevada could take days. Currently, for example, provisional votes are compared with the electoral roll, explains Clark County representative responsible for counting, Joe Gloria, at a press conference. These were votes from voters who were unable to show ID at the polling station. The district with the gambling metropolis Las Vegas as the largest city is the most populous in the state with more than two million inhabitants.

For Wednesday evening (local time), Gloria also announces an estimate of how many votes were put into around 300 boxes for election envelopes by Tuesday and still have to be counted. The influential restaurant union is calling on its members in Las Vegas to use this form of voting instead of standing in line, sometimes for hours, in person. The counting of these votes is to begin on Thursday. According to Gloria, an unknown number of votes sent by post were also missing.

After counting almost 839,000 votes, the Republican candidate for the US Senate, Adam Laxalt, was around 22,600 votes ahead of the Democratic incumbent Catherine Cortez Masto by Wednesday noon (local time). Observers suspect that this lead could shrinkbecause in the US, Republican supporters tend to cast their votes disproportionately in person, while Democrats more often prefer postal votes or the throw-in.

Nevada and Arizona were the two states on Wednesday for which the US media had not yet declared a winner with a view to the Senate.

Source: Stern

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