More delays and more confusion in Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District race. About 200 more early ballots have been discovered by Pima County elections workers.
In the meantime, Martha McSally is holding onto her slim lead over Democratic incumbent Ron Barber by 133 votes.
A spokesperson for Pima County says that the Elections Department plans to count the newly discovered votes Wednesday night along with any remaining conditional provisional ballots.
On Wednesday, 208 ballots were discovered when election workers began preparing to count votes for a separate school district election in Green Valley.
Pima County officials had instructed voters to return each ballot separately. But election workers found that some voters had included their early general election ballot in the same envelope as the school board ballots.
All of these newly discovered ballots are from the 2nd Congressional District.
If either candidate wins by fewer than 200 votes, state law requires a recount, which could not take place until after Dec. 1.
