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Roughly 117,000 outstanding mail-in ballots have yet to be accounted for in North Carolina, and election officials say they won't be reviewed for another week.
On Wednesday, North Carolina State Board Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell said that counties will hold absentee ballot and provisional ballot counting meetings on November 12 and 13, which will account for the remaining outstanding votes in the state.
That could mean that North Carolina election results will likely not be determined for at least eight more days.
"With very few exceptions would North Carolina's numbers move before the 12th or 13th," she said.
Among those 117,000 outstanding ballots could include voters who requested a mail-in ballots but chose not to vote, or voters who chose to cast their vote in person on November 3 instead.
But the board of elections will not know the full result of those outstanding ballots for another week.
"The actual casting of ballots has ended but the election is not over," said State Board Chair Damon Circosta.
North Carolina saw record voter turnout this year, with 74 percent of registered voters casting their ballots. Out of 5.5 million ballots, roughly 977,000 votes were cast via absentee ballots, Circosta said.
