Nevada Midterm Election Results Still Mired in Mail-In Ballot Backlog

LAS VEGAS—By late morning the day after Election Day, about a quarter of ballots cast in Nevada’s midterm elections remained untallied, leaving results in five key races undetermined.
Toss-up races for the U.S. Senate, three House seats, and the governor’s office are still too close to call, with elections officials warning that it could take several more days to produce definitive results.
Nevada’s two largest counties stopped counting ballots a half-hour after polls closed on Nov. 8 because understaffed elections workers were overwhelmed by late Election Day lines and an avalanche of vote-by-mail (VBM) ballots.
In Clark County, where 70 percent of Nevadans live in and around Las Vegas, and in Washoe County, which includes Reno, counting of VBM ballots that were dropped off or delivered on Election Day stopped after about 7:30 p.m. on election night….}