A week after election day, the race for the next Supervisor in the Parkside-to-Lakeside District 7 is down to a 33 vote lead for school board president and photoshopper of questionable taste Norman Yee. Although Yee was trailing labor leader F. X. Crowley before the weekend, the race is now historically close after the Department of Elections tallied up another 89 votes yesterday.

According to Dept. of Elections director John Arntz, the election is the first in San Francisco where the margin has come down to less than 100 votes, so the department is taking their sweet time on the count. For some extra election handwringing and statistical over-analysis: Yee was leading the race by 1,300 first-place votes before ranked choice voting kicked in and Crowley made up the difference with some fresh second and third-place votes.

The most recent counts include provisional ballots. As of yesterday evening, there were about 30,000 provisional ballots still uncounted across the city, about 1,400-1,500 of which are D7 voters. If the Department of Elections picks up the pace, the race could be called before Thanksgiving, but the city has until December 4th to officially certify the election results.

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