State’s Attorney Primary Gets Even Tighter as Vote Count Error is Revealed

The Cook County State’s Attorney primary is still too close to call. In fact, the gap between the two Democratic candidates, Eileen O’Neill Burke and Clayton Harris III has gotten even tighter.& Moreover, the Chicago Board of Elections has admitted to an error, stating that vote-by-mail ballots that were delivered on Monday, March 18 were left out of the count. The board is now working to add more than 10,000 mail-in votes to its total count, and it has met with attorneys for the campaigns of O’Neill Burke and Harris. The Board of Elections stated that all parties agreed to ballot counting and ballot signature verification to resume on Sunday with poll watchers present for every step of the process.& Those developments have helped delay the outcome of a race where Harris has significantly closed the gap on O’Neill Burke, whose lead has shrunk to just over 2,000 votes. O’Neill Burke has 259,445 votes, and Harris has 257,430 votes, reported ABC 7 Chicago.& Chicago Board of Elections Public Information Officer Max Bever released a statement& regarding the mail-in votes that were left out:& “I made an error in reporting the number of Vote By Mail ballots received back on Monday,...