(CNN) Bill Gates, chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, on Friday night denied allegations of wrongdoing from Arizona Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters, the Republican National Committee, and the Arizona Republican Party.

“The Republican National Committee’s suggestion that something bad is going on here in Maricopa County is completely false and, once again, offensive to these good-natured election officials,” he said. .

On Friday night, the RNC and the Arizona Republican Party tweeted a statement, criticizing the process in Maricopa County and calling for the county to “shift round-the-clock ballot processing” until all votes are tallied. . , exact public updates. ”

Maricopa County holds press conferences every day.

The RNC and parties also threatened to “not hesitate to take legal action if necessary.”

Addressing certain accusations from the RNC’s statement, Gates said, “If they have concerns, we hope they’ll bring them to us here. Please discuss these issues with us instead.”

“They’re exaggerating the rhetoric here, which is exactly what we don’t need to do,” Gates said.

“Continuing to count, at the end of the day, if there’s an issue they choose to bring to court, they have every right to do it and let that process go through,” Gates added.

Responding to allegations that the tally was “taking too long,” Gates said the county’s pace was on par with previous years.

“Over the last few decades, it has taken an average of 10 to 12 days to complete a tally. And that’s what we’re doing here Maricopa County, we follow the law to make sure our counts are accurate.”

In addition, Gates responded to a claim from Masters that the county should “wipe the slate clean” and start counting from the beginning because the county confused uncounted ballots with counted ballots.

In an interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson on Friday, Masters said that on “at least two occasions” uncounted uncounted cases were put in the county’s secure drop-box after being unable to be processed on-site due to technical glitches. Confused ballots. Ballots that have already been counted.

“So when I went in front of the machine and it didn’t move, I was told to put my ballot in a safe box. Hey, I’ll count this later. Well, Maricopa County at least counted.” Twice I’ve mixed up ballots that weren’t counted with ballots that were already counted. Please, Maricopa County wipe the slate clean, take all the ballots and count them anew,” Masters said.

Gates said there were two vote centers with “mixed” ballots, but said the county has a process to separate them.

“There have been two vote centers where ballots that went into Box 3 were mixed with ballots that actually went through the tabulator. Now here’s the problem. We can absolutely address this. In these two examples we know exactly how many people have checked in to that vote center. You can decide if are the same. You can separate them and make a decision. Best of all, Republican and Democratic observers are watching this to make sure everything checks out. is to

And in response to a suggestion from Masters that the county should wipe the slate clean and start over, Gates said it was “not permitted under Arizona law.”

Malfunctioning vote tally machines in Maricopa County on Election Day have become prey to right-wing conspiracy theories.

Gates said there are an estimated 275,000 votes left in Maricopa County. If they keep counting at the same pace, he expects about 60,000 to 80,000 votes a day, and the tally should be complete by “very early next week.”

CNN predicted Friday night that Arizona Democratic Senator Mark Kelly would retain his seat.