Article snippet: Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D) widened her lead over Rep. MORE (R) in the heated Arizona Senate race after a new round of ballots were tallied in the Democrat's favor late Friday. Sinema more than doubled her lead over McSally with Friday evening's latest tranche of results. The Democrat now leads her GOP challenger by 20,203 votes. Earlier Friday, Sinema led McSally by just 9,163 votes out of nearly 2 million cast — a 0.48 percentage point lead. She now leads her opponent by just over 1 percentage point. The vast majority of the votes tallied Friday came from Maricopa County, the state's largest county, where there were an estimated 345,000 uncounted votes prior to Friday's evenings results. Results from Maricopa were closely divided, with Sinema holding just a 2.5 percentage point lead over McSally on Thursday night. Before Friday's release, Pima County had the next-largest chunk of uncounted ballots. The county, which houses the more left-leaning Tucson, had 80,000 uncounted ballots. Sinema led there by 13 percentage points as of Friday afternoon. The largest pool of votes likely to favor McSally come from Pinal County, where an estimated 30,000 votes remain untallied. McSally, on Friday, led Sinema by 14 percentage points in the area. Friday's wave of results came the same day a settlement was reached in a Phoenix courtroom that permits rural voters to have extra time to fix issues with their ballots, according to The Associated Press. The settlement is a compromis... Link to the full article to read more