Although primary day was two weeks ago, the public is still anxiously awaiting the final results as the Monroe County Board of Elections is counting more mail-in ballots than it ever has before. 

The BOE says it's received more than 80,000 mail-in ballots. Since Wednesday, volunteers have taken on the arduous task of counting them all by hand.

"We made tremendous progress today. We're very excited about how things went because we were able to count the ballots for the special election and we've started counted the ballots for the presidential election," says Lashana Boose, Monroe County Board of Elections interim Democratic commissioner.

According to the BOE, those counting are through 90 percent of the ballots for the state primary and special elections, and nearly half way through the presidential primary.

"We have to finishing opening and counting the presidential, and then we have to add hand counts to all three elections and just tidy everything up," says Lisa Nicolay, Monroe County Board of Elections Republican commissioner.

Counting was supposed to wrap up Monday, but commissioners say they need more time to get this right.

Because of the large amount of mail-in ballots as a result of the pandemic, the state has allowed the BOE extra time as long as the state is updated on their progress.

"It's not over yet obviously, when every vote is tallied, every vote is counted, from early voting, day of voting and absentee voting, they will be tabulated together and when we are a 100 percent confident that every vote has been tabulated. We'll release those results," Nicolay adds.

The BOE is hoping to have results ready by the end of this week or early next week.