More than half of the voters who took out ballots for early voting waited until Election Day or the day before to turn in those ballots, and election and city councillors who gathered for a roundtable wondered why.

Despite her work around diversity and inclusion on public art and monuments, city councillor E. Denise Simmons said that an attempt to include a Harvard-educated disability rights advocate of Eritrean descent in a playground naming “just doesn’t sit right with me.”

Election Commissioners completed a count of provisional and overseas absentee ballots on Friday, making official the results from Nov. 2. Those elected to the City Council and School Committee didn’t change, and three ballot questions changing the city charter were approved by wide margins. 

A surprising outburst from councillor E. Denise Simmons accused a fellow councillor of using his “charter right” rudely at Monday’s meeting of the City Council – though the maneuver was used the same way it has been countless times over the years.

Gubernatorial candidate Danielle Allen plans to visit the Cambridge Community Center on Tuesday, including time to speak with people coming to pick up boxes of materials.

A count of the city’s write-in and auxiliary ballots over Wednesday and Thursday hasn’t changed who will sit on next term’s City Council and School Committee, or the results of three ballot questions that reform the city charter. 

Challengers Paul Toner and Burhan Azeem were elected to the City Council and incumbent Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler was defeated in a preliminary count completed at 1:10 a.m. Wednesday, while newcomer Akriti Bhambi was elected to the School Committee.

Voters approved three ballot questions Tuesday dealing with the city charter, according to a preliminary vote count by election commissioners.

A campaign season hobbled by the limitations of a pandemic limps to a close Tuesday, with 21 candidates in the race for nine City Council seats.

Online discourse around the year’s City Council race has become hostile, with candidates caught in the crossfire calling it more personal and less substantive than before. In one controversy, they are endorsees of a group under fire for a year-old incident that began with a different organization.