New Jersey Republican Jack Ciattarelli isn't conceding governor's race yet

New Jersey Republican Jack Ciattarelli's campaign says they are waiting for more votes to be counted in the governor's race before deciding whether to concede or move forward with a recount. "Our goal is to make sure that every vote is counted. That we know the current margin between the two candidates before we make a decision whether or not to seek a recount…" Counting process has been a bit of a "disaster" now they want to "short circuit" the process to avoid further embarrassment "The campaign and Jack are going to wait and see…" Q: Murphy campaign says 55k provisionals. Any sense of how many there are? We have a count of 69,173 and about 5,000 uncounted VBMs Unknown number of emergency votes "The odds of them all going in favor of Jack...is unlikely...that doesn't mean it doesn't bring it close enough to warrant a recount…" "Evaluate whether or not it makes sense to recount this vote" Q: threshold for requesting a recount? Threshold at roughly 1 percent - but based on what we hear or see Nothing credible about fraud or malfeasance "I'm not looking to be Rudy Giuliani standing in front of a mulch pile"**** Q: timetable for how long this could take? We should have a good idea int he next 48 hours of what those provisional counts look like Done with VBM today by law - move on to provisionals starting tomorrow Q: would your campaign be seeking the recount? I think at this point in time - I doubt that governor murphy will be calling for a recount If we get in the 1 percent range, we'll make a decision Q: why'd the campaign oppose extending voting hours? Didn't come forward with any evidence that any voter had been turned away Extraordinary request - wasn't going to request Q: how much would statewide recount cost? Would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, not including legal time, staff time Probably around a million dollars to recount this if not more Campaign has some excess funds that are available - but to the extent that there's a desire to recount this vote, we'd have to request permission from ELEC to raise money for a recount Every candidate is entitled to recount - ELEC has allowed for additional fundraising for gubernatorial candidates  Q: hard to get approval from a judge? It's a reasonableness standard - have to point to how close the race is One percent out of roughly 2.5M votes cast, add to that issues on election days with voting machines 70,000 provisional ballots Q: would you consider recounting specific counties? Might be worth it at some point in time to conduct a sampling - maybe a recount of 5 or 6 counties - would probably be the largest counties - but that's a strategic decision we'll make once we know where the race stands If you didn't have a VBM ballot they could count your provisional, but if you also got a VBM ballot (damaged, lost or never came, etc) you voted provisionally those can't be counted until tomorrow

CBS News projected last Wednesday that Democratic Governor Phil Murphy would be reelected. Murphy currently leads Ciattarelli by 65,404 votes, a margin of 2.6 percent. 

Monday is the final day for mail-in ballots to arrive and there are tens of thousands of provisional ballots left to be counted. The Murphy campaign estimates there are about 57,400 provisional ballots, while Ciattarelli's team believes there could be 70,000 provisional ballots.