Missing Election Day results holding up race calls in two Chicago School Board districts

The Chicago Board of Election is still counting votes — a delay that is leaving the fate of two school board races hanging in the balance.Votes cast on Tuesday from almost every city precinct have been reported by the election board, including ballots from 44.6% of registered voters, or 686,000 Chicagoans.But as of Thursday evening, 12 of 1291 precincts had not been counted, down from 50 Wednesday. The board counted an additional 12,000 votes Thursday, WBEZ’s analysis showed. There are 3,000 ballots from Election Day left to be counted, according to the board, and 131,131 uncounted votes in total, including mail-in ballots. More than 4,000 provisional ballots also remain to be tabulated.When asked by WBEZ why delays in counting ballots from Election Day were occurring, a board spokesperson said there are “ongoing transmissions to our central data intake and tabulating system.” This snafu means the outcomes of races for school board districts 5b and 7a are, for now, still too clo