Election 2020 updates: Biden warns of 'dark winter,' pushes masks in pandemic plan

The Trump campaign and the Nevada GOP -- citing unfounded allegations regarding potential voter fraud -- Thursday evening requested Attorney General Bill Barr investigate unclear violations of federal law.

The party has identified what they allege are 3,062 individuals "who appear to have improperly cast mail ballots in the election."

Any official body can make this kind of request, known as a "criminal referral," essentially a notice to the Justice Department or FBI alerting federal officials of a potential federal crime. But the notice in recent years has been increasingly utilized by partisan actors seeking to cast a cloud of suspicion over their political enemies. The bar to make a criminal referral is very low.

In order for the federal government to get involved, there must be suspected violations of federal law, as states are responsible for overseeing elections.

They have not provided any identifiable information that can be verified.

When asked Thursday night by ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos if he was aware of any instances of voter fraud in the state, Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford responded, "None."

"In fact, what we heard from our county registrar down in Clark County, for example, is that the only instance they've seen of voter fraud was a Trump supporter trying to vote twice," Ford said. "At the end of the day, we’re looking out for it -- if you do it, we're going to prosecute you."

-ABC News' Katherine Faulders and Alexander Mallin

For the first time in days there was one thing White House aides all reacted to Thursday afternoon -- total fear of Joe Biden speaking. They did not fear what the former vice president would say or not say -- but they knew just him speaking would make their boss want to do the same. 

Some Trump aides couldn't bring themselves to watch the president's speech because they knew it was going to be bad, according to sources.  

As Trump claims he wants to go to the Supreme Court, his lawyers so far can't find a viable method to get there. Members of his legal team have been studying but can’t find a way as of now. 

The lawsuits brought by Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and his colleagues in some states have been dismissed by senior Trump aides as pointless and lacking a cohesive legal strategy.

-ABC News' Katherine Faulders and John Santucci

Trump now leads in Georgia by 1,797 votes as the margin gets tighter following the latest reporting out of Clayton, Rockdale and Forsyth counties.

Just south of Atlanta, Clayton is the fifth-most-populated county in the state. Nearly two-thirds or 73% of its residents are Black and another 13% are Hispanic/Latino, according to U.S. Census estimates.

Hillary Clinton won this county by a 70-point margin in 2016, earning about 78,000 votes. Biden currently has over 90,000 votes in Clayton.

Clinton won Rockdale County by a 26-point margin in 2016. Biden's margin is even bigger, at 40.8 points.

The candidates are neck-and-neck in Georgia -- 49.4% to 49.4% -- as Trump leads slightly with 2,447,337 votes to Biden's 2,445,540.

There were about 16,000 outstanding ballots as of 8:40 p.m., according to the Georgia secretary of state.

-ABC News' Quinn Scanlan

At least 106 women will serve in the House, based on the latest ABC News projections, eclipsing the previous record of 102 set in 2019, according to the Center for American Women and Politics. 

Of those, at least 46 are women of color, which is also record-setting, beating out the record of 44 set in 2019.

Republican women are making up significant ground after 2018, with at least 24 projected by ABC News to win their contests. The current total stands just shy of the record of 25 GOP women serving in the House, which was set in 2006. 

Some of the winners include Stephanie Bice in Oklahoma's 5th Congressional District, Ashley Hinson in Iowa's 1st Congressional District and Michelle Fischbach in Minnesota's 7th Congressional District, who all flipped Democratic-held seats. Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia's 14th Congressional District and Lauren Boebert in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District -- two controversial candidates who either embraced or showed support for the QAnon conspiracy theory -- will be among the GOP's ranks in the next Congress.

-ABC News' Kendall Karson