Slow election night results in key Pima County races was blamed on software.
Brad Nelson, theΒ elections director for Pima County, said software issues were to blame for projecting the wrong number of precincts reporting results as well as the number of registered voters in the county.
Nelson emphasized late Tuesday night that despite the problems, the vote counts were accurate.
Results as late as 10:30 p.m.showed mostly mail-in ballots, with only some votes cast at the polls. By contrast, much larger Maricopa county has completed its vote count by 10 p.m.
As polls closed Tuesday, elections results on the county's web showed nearly 565,000 registered voters. But the Arizona Secretary of State's website stated there are nearly 493,000 registered voters in Pima County.Β
The Pima County Recorder's Office said 306,000 ballots were mailed.Β
Part of the way through preliminary results, the county removed the tallied number of precincts reported, making it difficult to project winners.Β
Nelson estimated 60 out of 248 precincts in Pima County had been counted as of 10:30 p.m.
