School candidate has two-week wait to see if she won
Donna Wang Su trailed in early returns but pulled ahead as ballots from Skokie precincts were counted.
Donna Wang Su.
Donna Wang Su says “she stayed up pretty late last night, refreshing the page” that had election returns.
Those returns came in much slower than expected, but when the counting was finished, Su took the fourth and final seat on the Evanston/Skokie District 65 school board, base on numbers released by the County Clerk’s office this afternoon, by just 46 votes over Marquise Weatherspoon, 5,438 to 5,392.
But because mail-in ballots postmarked by election day will still be counted if they arrive in the next two weeks, Su says she’s still “a little on the nervous side. I don’t feel comfortable” declaring victory quite yet. There’s still a chance that Weatherspoon could win. In fact, on her Facebook page, Weatherspoon posted that she “has not given up hope.”
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But mail-in ballots add unpredictability to the total turnout predictions.
Aldermanic candidate Carolyn Murray, right, chats with a friend outside the Primm Towers polling place this morning.
5th Ward aldermanic candidate Carolyn Murray stood in front of a polling place this morning, passing out literature and asking voters for their support.
But there were not a lot of voters showing up, at least not in the first few hours of Election Day.
At 9 a.m., Murray, who had been outside the Ebenezer-Primm Towers at Emerson and Maple for three hours, said turnout so far had been “very low.”
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Just 46% have opted for new hybrid in-person option.
Even though Evanston Township High School students can return to the building for classes next month, a majority of students are choosing to stay at home for remote learning.
Superintendent Eric Witherspoon told the District 202 Board of Education Monday night that 46% of the high school’s 3,600-plus students have chosen the hybrid option, which includes both in-person classes and e-learning from home.
The rest, 54%, have decided to continue with fully remote education, which has been in effect since the coronavirus pandemic hit last March.
Families could choose either option. Witherspoon said a higher proportion of white students opted for in-person/hybrid than did students of color, although a specific breakdown of those numbers was not mentioned.
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