The closely watched race for Cook County State’s Attorney between retired judge Eileen O’Neill Burke and University of Chicago lecturer Clayton…
Updated totals released Sunday night showed O'Neill Burke with 259,445 votes and 50.20% of ballots cast compared to Harris' 257,430 votes and 49.80%.The closely watched race for Cook County State's Attorney between retired judge Eileen O'Neill Burke and University of Chicago lecturer Clayton Harris remains too close to call as officials from the city of Chicago and Cook County continue to process mail-in ballots.
According to election officials, updated totals showed O'Neill Burke with 259,445 votes and 50.20% of ballots cast compared to Harris' 257,430 votes and 49.80%. A total of 3,500 mail-in ballots still had yet to be counted - 2,500 in the city and 1,000 in suburban Cook County, officials said. Feeling out of the loop? We'll catch you up on the Chicago news you need to know. Sign up for the weeklySaturday, O'Neill Burke held a greater edge over Harris, with an additional 4,771 votes. At that point, O'Neill was up 50.47% - with 255,010 votes - compared to Harris' 49.5% and 250,239 votes.
A Chicago Board of Elections spokesperson provided an update on vote-by-mail processing efforts Sunday evening, saying 13,107 more votes had been added to the unofficial count throughout the day. As a result, the number of ballots cast rose to 382,097, equaling a 25.31% turnout citywide.of outstanding and included ballots.
The spokesperson said that a total of 7,009 ballots had been received back via the U.S. Postal Service on Monday ahead of Election Day. Another 9,143 ballots should have been included in that number, officials said."Per Illinois election code, all late-arriving but properly postmarked vote-by-mail ballots have a two-week period to be counted – and that would bring us to April 2nd," CBOE director of public information Max Bever said.
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