Democratic candidate Hobbs closes in on AZ secretary of state seat
Democrat Katie Hobbs is making headway in her bid to be the next secretary of state.
New results Wednesday evening give her a 6,115-vote edge over Republican Steve Gaynor, up by more than 1,000 from the day before.
Hobbs is being propelled in part by the fact that voters in Maricopa County, where Republicans hold a voter-registration edge, were choosing her over the GOP nominee. As of Wednesday, Hobbs had a lead of more than 13,000 votes out of more than 1.3 million already counted in the state's largest county.
She also picked up steam with another batch of votes from Coconino County where she is outpolling Gaynor by a margin of 2-1.
Gaynor has done better elsewhere.
Mohave County finished its vote counting on Wednesday, with 51,900 votes for Gaynor against just 18,774 for Hobbs.
In Navajo County, the final tally was closer, with Gaynor picking up 19,040 of the 35,970 votes cast there for that office.
But it's not the votes that are already known that is keeping the ultimate outcome of the race in the air.
There also are about 19,400 ballots yet to be counted in Pima County. But election officials there have said they don't intend to update their count until sometime Saturday.
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