Arizona primary 2022: Live election coverage - The Arizona Republic

Recap: Tuesday's election highlights | Arizona primary election results.

The phenomenon of early ballots making for some late election results is in play as the wait for the outcome of Arizona’s primary in a few key races stretches out to a second day.

Elections officials continue to count ballots from Tuesday’s primary election, and those that are slowing down the results are mostly ones that people dropped off at the polls.

Maricopa County officials said they had about 147,450 ballots left to process.

Early ballots that are returned on election day (the "late earlies") are usually set aside until the day after the election, as workers deal with getting results from early ballots that came in earlier (the “early earlies”) as well as votes cast in person at the polls.

Thursday, according to the Maricopa County Elections Department.

Two appointed officials in Maricopa County have also won their primary races.

County Attorney Rachel Mitchell, running to lead the office she took over after the death of Allister Adel, defeated Gina Godbehere in the GOP primary.

Maricopa County released about 5,000 additional ballot results in the governor's race Wednesday night, a small number of the remaining ballots that are left to count. .

Maricopa County had roughly 90,000 ballots left to count, enough to close the gap between Kari Lake and her opponent Karrin Taylor Robson. A winner has not yet been declared in the race, but Lake maintained a narrow lead in the race.

A larger drop of results is expected from Maricopa County on Thursday night, also around 7 p.m.

The Democratic race for Arizona secretary of state also remains unresolved, as returns released Wednesday evening continued to show a single-digit lead for Adrian Fontes over Reginald Bolding.

The former Maricopa County recorder, Fontes has held the lead in the closely fought race since Tuesday evening.

In the GOP primary in House District 4, Kelly Cooper maintained his lead over Tanya Contreras Wheeless.

There's no telling how many people were prevented from voting in Pinal County's primary after polling stations ran out of ballots and at least one failed to open for hours.

Amid calls to nullify the results from one candidate and angry questions from others, county officials on Wednesday conceded they botched the election — again.

Officials promised to immediately restructure its election department to ensure the same mistakes are not repeated when early ballots for November's election go out in about three weeks.

Pinal became the poster child for election day problems in Arizona with only a smattering of problems reported throughout the state, including a ballot shortage at one precinct in Pima County and ink-smeared ballots in Maricopa County.

The shortages come on the heels of an error last month that caused the Pinal County to send out nearly 63,000 erroneous ballots to voters, leaving officials scrambling to come up with a legal solution before the primary.

At the time, Lake held the lead in the race and ballots dropped off Tuesday were still being counted.

Lake, 52, said she would continue to talk about the 2020 election, which she believes was fraudulent, as she faces Democratic nominee Katie Hobbs, the current Secretary of State who has defended Joe Biden’s win in the Grand Canyon State. She offered a conflicting message when asked about the current cycle and whether there was fraud. .

She reiterated that Wednesday, but Lake and her campaign attorney Tim LaSota pointed to non-criminal election issues like a shortage of ballots in Pinal County when speaking about the current cycle. .

Maricopa County officials said Wednesday there are at least 150,000 early ballots left to count from Phoenix-area voters.

These apparent victories send a “huge” message that the public wants to address election problems, he said?

Several Trump-backed other primary candidates will still have to take on Democratic candidates in the November election.

On Wednesday, the band’s frontman, Dee Snider, eyed the results of the Democratic race for governor and tweeted his intention to start singing the tune for Katie Hobbs’ campaign.

But after Hobbs bested Lopez in a lopsided Democratic primary, Snider threw his full support to Hobbs.

Preliminary results show incumbent Douglas Nicholls in the lead with 59% of the vote Tuesday, compared with opponent Karen Watts with 38% of the vote, in Yuma’s mayoral election.

The AP called the Democratic primary race for Hodge at 12:55 a.m

The Associated Press declared Abe Hamadeh the winner of the Republican primary for attorney general as the Trump-endorsed candidate’s lead over Rodney Glassman expanded overnight

Kari Lake’s lead over Karrin Taylor Robson in the race for the Republican nomination for Arizona governor grew overnight into Wednesday, but with roughly 130,000 ballots left to be tallied in Maricopa County the race had not yet been called. 

Lake surpassed Taylor Robson’s initial lead in the results as ballots cast by voters on election day were counted

Daggett held a comfortable lead throughout most of election day Tuesday and with 100% of precincts reporting she received just over 50% of the vote. 

County officials plan to address questions Wednesday afternoon about ballot shortages at multiple precincts in Pinal County during the election Tuesday. 

Former Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes held a narrow lead over state Rep

By contrast, Fontes presided over Maricopa County’s election that was scrutinized and essentially reaffirmed by the Republican partisans who handled the state Senate-ordered review of the county’s ballots in 2021