About 300,000 ballots remain to be counted in Maricopa County, Board of Supervisors Bill Gates told CNN This Morning on Wednesday. About 17,000 ballots from Election Day, not including mail-in ballots, have yet to be counted, Gates said. Those ballots make up about 7% of the ballots that went into Box 3, meaning they “didn’t make it past the table to the polling station, but are safe and will be recorded in our central counting unit,” Gates said. Additionally, there are 90,000 mail-in ballots received after Friday but before Tuesday that have not been counted, and about 200,000 mail-in ballots received on Tuesday that also have not been counted, Gates told CNN This Morning. He noted they don’t have an exact count of how many mail-in ballots were received Tuesday, but said the roughly 200,000 “all came in late last night.” Gates stressed that voters in Maricopa County “shouldn’t have to worry” about their votes being counted after a technical issue, telling CNN the bottom line is that “everyone who showed up yesterday with a valid ID … had an opportunity to vote a ballot and that vote will count.” “Because of the great work of our poll workers and our techniques to determine what the issue was, we were able to bring those taggers back online,” he said. “Everyone who showed up yesterday with a valid ID — because we have a voter ID law here in Arizona — had an opportunity to cast a ballot, and that vote will be counted.”
