It could be Thanksgiving before the count is completed, city officials said.
If Mr. Obama's edge holds, as most experts say it will when the count is completed on Thursday, Nebraska will give one electoral vote (officially No. 365 in the win column) to a Democrat for the first time since 1964, when Lyndon B. Johnson won the whole state.
They said Mr. Klain did not include it in the 58-vote figure he cited on Saturday because he only spoke about counties where the count was complete, or nearly complete.
People close to the commission said that at least 89 percent of the votes had been counted and sifted for fraud in all provinces, but that in the majority, a few votes remained to be counted and commission members wanted to wait until the count was complete.
Panagopoulos rushed out a ranking on the day after the election and then revised and republished it later when the count was complete.
Once all the counting is complete, the Republicans will gain nine from the Democrats.
But the governing party was expected to hold its majority, once the count was completed.
Bob Marshall-Andidws did this at the last general election before the count was completed.
There was jubilation in the room as the count was completed, with lawyers from both sides laughing, hugging and posing for photographs, almost as if all was forgiven.
When the counting was complete, and the moon overhead, he used a battery-powered hand drill to make small holes in the carapaces of about a dozen horseshoe crabs so he could attach tags to them.
