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(CNN) – The presidential race between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden remains on the razor’s edge as poll workers in key states continue to fight their way through the ballot.
This is what is happening in each state:
Arizona
Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs said Thursday morning there are approximately 450,000 ballots left in the state to count. Of this total, about 300,000 come from populous Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix and its suburbs.
Hobbs, who spoke on NBC’s “Today” show, did not have an estimate of how long it would take for the remaining ballots to be counted.
The official said the missing ballots included “early votes that voters left at polling places on Election Day.” He said workers Thursday morning were verifying signatures before ballots could be tabulated.
The state does not count ballots received after Election Day.
Georgia
About 48,000 votes remain to be counted in Georgia, according to a statement by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Trump led by fewer than 15,000 votes near noon Thursday, according to the latest reports. Sixteen electoral votes hang by a thread.
Chatham County, which includes Savannah, had the most uncounted ballots as of Thursday morning. They totaled more than 17,000 votes.
Gabriel Sterling, Georgia’s elections official, said the state is also trying to determine how many pending provisional ballots still need to be counted, but he hoped that would be resolved by the end of the day.
“Fast is great, and we appreciate how fast,” he told reporters Thursday morning. “We appreciate precision more,” he added.
Nevada
It is difficult to determine how many ballots are pending in Nevada because the state is one of the few that mailed ballots to all active registered voters. Election officials will count mail-in ballots received by November 10, provided they are postmarked by Election Day.
Biden’s lead rose to nearly 12,000 votes in Nevada by noon Thursday, after the state released updated results. Officials for Clark County, home to Las Vegas and more than 70% of the state’s voters, said they expect to have all votes counted by the end of the weekend.
In Washoe County, the state’s second-largest county, officials say about 9,000 mail-in ballots are currently being counted.
North Carolina
Trump leads North Carolina by more than 75,000 votes, with an estimated 95% reported. The state is not expected to report any additional results until next week.
To finish its count, North Carolina is waiting to see if 116,000 requested and pending absentee ballots are returned by Nov. 12. In North Carolina, an Election Day postmarked ballot can be counted if it is received before 5 p.m. ET on November 12.
But the state still doesn’t know how many of those 116,000 voters chose to vote in person or turn in their ballot on Election Day. For this reason, the number of potential outstanding votes could be reduced.
“With very few exceptions, the numbers for North Carolina will not budge until November 12 or 13,” North Carolina State Board of Elections Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell said Wednesday.
Pennsylvania
In Pennsylvania, where 20 electoral votes are at stake, about 370,000 ballots remain to be counted, state officials said. And Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar said poll workers could finish counting “the overwhelming majority” on Thursday and have a clear winner.
Mail-in ballots continue to arrive in Pennsylvania, where state law allows elections officials to receive and count mail-in ballots that arrive through Friday. Boockvar has asked counties to separate ballots that arrive between 8 p.m. ET on Nov. 3 and before 5 p.m. on Nov. 6, in light of possible legal recourse from the Trump campaign.
However, speaking with CNN on Thursday afternoon, Boockvar said that post-election day vote numbers could have a marginal impact on the outcome. “It is not a huge amount,” he said. “So I think whatever happens, I don’t think it’s going to have a tremendous impact on this race,” he added.
Allegheny County officials told CNN earlier that day that they had received about 500 votes after Election Day and estimate that between 10,000 and 15,000 provisional ballots remain to be processed. Allegheny County includes the city of Pittsburgh.
The county will not count any more ballots until Friday due to a court order on some 29,000 disputed ballots, according to county officials. But he will prepare for the restart of the count on Friday. They are being processed. Nobody has the day off. They’re working, ”Allegheny executive Rich Fitzgerald told CNN.
About 36,000 ballots remain to be counted, Fitzgerald said.
CNN’s Kelly Mena, Austen Bundy, Kate Bolduan, Lauren Moore, Jason Morris and Wes Bruer contributed to this report.
