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(CNN) – The presidential race between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden remains to be called, as poll workers across the country, including in key states, continue to make their way onto the ballot.
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Counts were delayed due to a record flood of mail-in ballots. Officials in Pennsylvania, critically ill on the battlefield, were prevented from processing those ballots until Election Day, causing a delay.
This is what is happening in each state as of 5 p.m. ET on Friday:
Arizona
Arizona has an estimated 250,000 to 270,000 ballots without counting for the 3:45 p.m. ET count, according to Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat.
Hobbs told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that 137,000 of those ballots were in Maricopa County, the most populous county in the state, and that after more results were released Friday night, that number would drop below 100,000.
“They’ve been doing about 60,000 to 70,000 at a time,” Hobbs said of the Maricopa Elections Department. “They’ve told us that they hope to be counting over the weekend and that they should have just about everything except the provisional ballots wrapped up this weekend.”
Officials from Maricopa, which covers Phoenix, announced a new batch of approximately 60,000 ballots at 11 a.m. ET on Friday. The county showed Biden leading 972,570 votes to 912,115 votes.
Hobbs said there were 25,000 outstanding ballots in Pima County, home to Tucson, and 34,000 in Pinel County, south of Phoenix.
Latest Arizona results here.
Georgia
Biden took a narrow lead in Georgia on Friday after he reported Clayton County in suburban Atlanta, prompting Republican officials to set the stage for a possible recount. Trump’s lead steadily narrowed as more ballots were counted Thursday, and Biden took the lead on Friday morning.
“Out of approximately 5 million votes cast, we will have a margin of a few thousand,” Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Friday morning. “With such a small margin, there will be a count in Georgia.”
State official Gabriel Sterling said the state was trying to finish counting on Friday, but warned that the count could slide into the weekend.
The state still has at least 13,000 provisional ballots to clear, including ballots that have errors that voters can correct. Of those, there are more than 4,800 provisional ballots in Fulton County, the largest in Georgia that includes Atlanta, including 3,600 that were accepted and 1,200 rejected.
Latest Georgia results here.
Nevada
Biden’s lead doubled to more than 22,000 votes after the last post of votes from Clark County, the home of Las Vegas.
With Clark County last posting 30,322 votes, Biden now led Trump in Nevada by 22,209 votes. Biden previously led by a margin of 11,438 votes.
Six electoral votes hang by a thread in Nevada. More uncounted votes from Clark County were expected to be reported later on Friday.
On Thursday, the Nevada Secretary of State said about 190,150 ballots remained to be counted statewide, of which 90% are from Clark County, the most populous county in the state and a Democratic stronghold.
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 ballots received by mail through November 10, provided they are postmarked on Election Day.
Latest Nevada results here.
North Carolina
Trump leads in North Carolina by more than 75,000 votes, with an estimated 95% reported. According to the North Carolina State Board of Elections, nine county boards of elections met Friday to consider at least 4,300 additional absentee ballots, which would be added to the unofficial election results.
To finalize its count, North Carolina is waiting to see if 116,000 requested absentee ballots are returned pending before November 12. In North Carolina, an Election Day postmarked ballot can be counted if it is received by 5 pm ET on November 12.
But the state doesn’t yet know how many of those 116,000 voters chose to vote in person or turn in their ballots on Election Day, so the number of potential outstanding votes could be reduced.
“With very few exceptions, the numbers for North Carolina will not move until November 12 or 13,” North Carolina State Board of Elections Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell said Wednesday.
Latest North Carolina results here.
Pennsylvania
Biden took the lead in Pennsylvania after more Philadelphia ballots were reported Friday morning.
Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, Democrat, said Friday afternoon that the majority of mail-in ballots had been counted and that the state was beginning to process provisional ballots.
There were approximately 113,000 missing ballots left to count statewide as of Friday at 5 p.m. ET, according to the state’s elections website, which is just under 5% of ballots cast by mail.
There are about 40,000 ballots yet to be counted in Philadelphia, according to Philadelphia City Commissioner Lisa Deeley. “It could take several days to complete the report on that,” Deeley said.
In Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh, officials estimate that there are about 36,000 ballots left to count. That includes 29,000 ballots that cannot be counted until Friday at 5 p.m. ET due to a court order. There are approximately 10-15,000 provisional ballots, according to county officials.
Latest Pennsylvania results here.
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