{"id":272376,"date":"2010-02-03T12:10:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T17:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef0120a85819c7970b"},"modified":"2010-02-03T12:10:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T17:10:21","slug":"cook-county-election-officials-resume-counting-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/272376","title":{"rendered":"Cook County election officials resume counting votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by David Kidwell<\/em> at 11:10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Weary elections officials woke up this morning with a total of 96 precincts left to count, 24 in suburban Cook County and 72 in Chicago.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Both jurisdictions were hard at work by 9 a.m.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Most of the delays were due to transmission issues or because election judges in some precincts did not include data from touch screen machines that weren&#8217;t used, elections officials said.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>In those cases, even when the issues were with only one machine, the results from the entire precinct must wait, they said. The final tabulation in both suburban Cook and the city is expected to be completed today.\n<\/p>\n<p>But some races are close enough to be affected by absentee ballots and provisional ballots that haven&#8217;t been counted.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Elections officials must wait for all absentee ballots postmarked the day before the election. Provisional ballots are those cast by voters on election day when there is an issue about registration or polling place. Overseas military ballots can take up to two weeks to arrive.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Poll workers at the county warehouse had counted and consolidated all the uncounted paper ballots from 13 precincts by 10:30 a.m., and had moved on to retrieving data from touch-screen machines in 11 other precincts that hadn&#8217;t been counted. Final election day results from suburban Cook County are expected to be available by noon.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Cook County Clerk David Orr said statewide most jurisdictions have reported 100 percent from election day, with Cook County and Chicago the only places with &quot;any significant&quot; outstanding election day votes left to count.<\/p>\n<p>In Chicago, elections officials are scheduled to give more information at 1 p.m. when workers start processing voting return cartridges at a warehouse in the 1800 block of West Pershing Road. The process is open to candidates, reporters and the public.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Allen, a spokesman for the Chicago Board of Elections, said officials will talk about how many precincts remain uncounted and what they&#8217;re doing about provisional ballots and absentee ballots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by David Kidwell at 11:10 a.m. Weary elections officials woke up this morning with a total of 96 precincts left to count, 24 in suburban Cook County and 72 in Chicago.Both jurisdictions were hard at work by 9 a.m.Most of the delays were due to transmission issues or because election judges in some precincts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}