Crunching the numbers on this and making some assumptions that some non-Maricopa stuff will mirror 2020 mostly I keep coming up with Lake losing by a very thin 2,000 votes in the best case scenario and a range of about a 2,000 vote loss to about a 7,500 vote loss. Numbers could be different if the non-Maricopa stuff breaks a lot differently than 2020. It looks like the final Maricopa votes would have to give a really good number not many people are expecting to pull off a shocking close win.
Pima county didn't help Lake last night...she got like 40% of that batch
So throw that into your model
Here's the situation so far, starting with the most recent information:
https://www.azcentral.com/story/new...ot-called-arizona-governors-race/10694946002/
Sunday, Nov. 13
Maricopa: Maricopa County's Sunday night batch of about 97,000 votes broke for Lake by nearly 10 percentage points. That left about 94,000 votes left to tally in Maricopa.Pima: On Sunday, Pima County released nearly 12,000 votes, which favored Hobbs over Lake by a 3-to-2 margin.
And for those who keep asking the most basic question over & over...
Eliminating mail-in voting is as about as radical extremist as it gets
Changing the dominant way how states like AZ vote because you believe but cannot prove fraud exists is coming from the same people who believe in state's rights when it comes to elections
https://www.azcentral.com/story/new...ot-called-arizona-governors-race/10694946002/
Vote counting in Arizona has been ongoing since Tuesday's midterm elections, with officials in the state's 15 counties releasing tallies of votes as they have been processed.
As of Sunday, the margin in the governor's race sat at just over 26,000 votes, with Lake about a point behind. There are still about 171,000 votes left to count in Arizona; Lake needs about 57% of those to overtake Hobbs.
Almost all of Arizona's vote happens by mail, although some voters cast their ballots in-person at voting centers. Most Arizona counties don't count ballots in-house, with officials instead bringing them to a central facility.
Early votes in Arizona can be counted as they come in, meaning that officials don't have to wait until polls close on Election Day to start.
Arizona officials release their vote totals in batches. Much of the focus has been on Maricopa, the state's largest county, with a total of 4.5 million residents — more than half of Arizona's total population — and about 2.4 million registered voters.
But other big releases have been coming from Arizona's next two most populated counties: Pima (home to Tucson) and Pinal, a large, suburban area just south of metro Phoenix.