Eileen O’Neill Burke is beating Harris 50.2% to 49.8%, with just 2,015 votes separating them.
Poll watchers observe while central count election judges process primary election mail-in ballots on March 24, 2024, at the Chicago Board of Elections.
The Chicago Board of Elections initially reported there were 7,009 vote-by-mail ballots received via the U.S. Postal Service on Election Day. That number incorrectly excluded 9,143 mail-in ballots received via the mail so late on Monday they were considered part of the Election Day mail total, board spokesman Max Bever said. In all, therefore, the number of mail-in ballots technically received on Election Day should have been 16,152 via the mail.
“This was not adding two and two from what wasn’t scanned on Monday ,” Bever told the Tribune Sunday, taking the blame for the mix-up. “It was a communications director not accurately reporting how many the board had back in hand.” Indeed, the weekend tallying was done under the watchful eye of attorneys and poll watchers from both campaigns as the vote count has dragged on for five days and will continue Monday at which time only between 3,500 and 4,500 total ballots from both the city and suburbs are expected to be tallied as the number of mail-ins has begun to decline.
The 11,600 Democratic ballots were part of nearly 13,100 vote-by-mail ballots, both Democratic and Republican, counted Sunday. Not all had votes in the state’s attorney’s race.
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