thousands of early ballots into a machine to be tabulated is actually much more complicated says elizabeth bartholamew of the maricopa county recorders office. >> because we received those ballots on the day of the election, they need to be signature verified, they need to be processed and then ready for tabulation. so that's what we will be doing all d majoriy of them ready to go to tab late tomorrow morning. >> the number of early ballots waiting to be tabulated, 3,400,000. >> we can only tab late so much per -- tab late so much per day. >> bartholamew says tuesday election day more than 200,000 voters dropped off early ballot at their polling places around maricopa county. at the maricopa county recorder's office, there were nearly 200,000 more early counted. >> we are always in maricopa bause of our size we are always about ten days after the election general election before we finish up the election. >> one of the races hanging in the balance, maricopa county recorder helen purcells. the republican is down roughly 9,000 votes to democratic challenger adrian fons it. persel has held the position f

thousands of early ballots into a machine to be tabulated is actually much more complicated says elizabeth bartholamew of the maricopa county recorders office. >> because we received those ballots on the day of the election, they need to be signature verified, they need to be processed and then ready for tabulation. so that's what we will be doing all d majoriy of them ready to go to tab late tomorrow morning. >> the number of early ballots waiting to be tabulated, 3,400,000. >> we can only tab late so much per -- tab late so much per day. >> bartholamew says tuesday election day more than 200,000 voters dropped off early ballot at their polling places around maricopa county. at the maricopa county recorder's office, there were nearly 200,000 more early