Cliffhanger in the 11th Subcircuit?

When FWIW last reported on the race for the Daleo vacancy in the 11th Subcircuit (Tuesday night), Kim Przekota was holding an uncomfortable 273 vote lead over Audrey Victoria Cosgrove.

More votes have been counted since. And, while the focus of reporting has been on the Cook County State's Attorney's race, that is not the only race in which votes are still being counted.

Thus, as of this morning, Cosgrove has narrowed Przekota's margin to just 162 votes.

For what it's worth, the Cook County Clerk's website shows all 72 precincts in the 11th Subcircuit as having been counted, with Cosgrove on top, 6,106 to 5,945. There may still be some mail-in ballots to be tallied in these precincts, but I don't know how many.

Przekota's lead, as on Tuesday evening, comes from City precincts, where she holds a 6,344 to 6,021 margin. But, while the City elections website shows precinct by precinct results, it does not clearly state that all Election Day and early voting votes attributable to these precincts have been counted.

But it does appear that City VBM totals are not yet showing up. Thus, the reference to the CCSAO race above was not just clickbait or an irrelevant tease. (I actually can tie this up, Your Honor.) The Chicago Board of Elections website contains a statement, posted yesterday, about counting mail-in votes. The link is in the preceding sentence; here is the text:

The Chicago Board of Elections was contacted by poll watchers from the campaigns for the Democratic candidates for Cook County State’s Attorney who requested to review the processing and counting of Vote By Mail ballots received on Election Day and through the counting period through April 2.

To accommodate these requests, the Vote By Mail canvass and counting schedule has been amended. Ongoing processing of Vote By Mail ballots will begin Thursday, March 21. Scanning and counting of Vote By Mail ballots by election judges will begin Friday, March 22. The public can expect to see the first updated unofficial election results from these Vote By Mail totals at ChicagoElections.Gov in the evening of Friday, March 22.

The Board is happy to accommodate these requests and appreciates the public’s patience as Vote By Mail ballot results are updated starting on the evening of Friday, March 22 and moving forward on a rolling basis.

Please see the updated 2024 Canvass Schedule by clicking here.

And, yes, the links in the statement above were included in the CBOE's online statement.

Obviously, most of these mail-in ballots still to be counted will not affect the 11th Subcircuit race. But some will. And, no, we don't know how many relevant votes are left to be counted. We will have to find out together.