Biden Is Projected To Be The President-Elect. Here’s How It All Went Down.

Nevada Update

A federal judge in Nevada has just denied an emergency request from state Republicans seeking to stop the use of signature-verification machines. The decision came in response to a lawsuit filed yesterday by GOP groups, who sought to prevent the use of such machines in the Clark County ballot-counting process. (If this lawsuit is ringing any bells, it’s because a similar lawsuit requesting a halt to the processing of mail-in ballots was filed — and rejected — in a state court earlier this week. A request for an emergency stay was also rejected by the state Supreme Court.) In today’s hearing, Clark County’s lawyer said the county— which includes Las Vegas — had about 63,000 mail-in ballots that still needed to be processed before they could be counted. Though Nevada is apparently done counting ballots today, there are still around 120,000 total ballots that remain unreported in the state, where Biden currently leads by 22,657 votes.

According to the Nevada Independent, Nevada is done counting for today. There are roughly 120,000 uncounted ballots remaining statewide, and the next vote drop is expected at noon Eastern tomorrow.

It could be a slow night — and we may not get the network projection we’ve been waiting for. Apart from the regular updates from Pennsylvania we’ve all come to know and love (including the Allegheny County absentees I posted about earlier), the big thing we’re expecting is a batch of 60,000-70,000 votes from Maricopa County, Arizona, at 9 p.m. Eastern. Trump’s path in Arizona is narrowing, so those results could be crucial.