President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have the chance to secure their respective party’s nomination on Tuesday. 

Trump needs the majority of the 161 delegates in Georgia, Hawaii, Mississippi, and Washington to secure the Republican nomination. The polls in Mississippi and Georgia will close before those in Washington, but the 99 delegates the two states have won’t be enough for Trump: He’ll need Washington to push him over the edge. 

It won’t be Nikki Haley (who suspended her campaign last week) who will challenge Trump’s chance of securing the nomination Tuesday, but rather Washington’s history with slow vote counting. In the 2022 primary race, only half of the vote had been tabulated by 1 a.m. EDT. Washington’s polls close hours after Georgia and Mississippi.

With Haley dropping out and Biden facing no major opposition after Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) dropped out of the race, Biden and Trump are expected to win the state. 

However, Biden is facing another “uncommitted” challenge in the Evergreen State. The protest vote being used to criticize Biden’s policy of supporting Israel in its war with Hamas received enough votes in Hawaii, Michigan, and Minnesota to receive delegates.

Rami al Kabra, a Palestinian American City Council member in Bothell, Washington, near Seattle, told the New York Times some Democrats are throwing away their mail-in ballots in protest. After the “uncommitted” vote gained traction in their state, they are asking for them back.

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“It gives them hope that they can make an impact and let the president and party hear their voice,” Kabra said. “The snowball is growing.”

Delaware and Florida canceled their Democratic primaries, with all delegates from those states going to Biden. With that, Biden needs to win 40% of the vote in Washington to secure the Democratic nomination Tuesday.