CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Election officials in Chicago and suburban Cook County have provided updates on the counting of mail-in ballots from Tuesday's primary, as the Democratic race for Cook County State's Attorney remains too close to call.
As of Thursday night, election officials said Eileen O'Neill Burke holds a narrow lead of just over 8,100 votes over Clayton Harris III.
Edmund Michalowski is the deputy in charge of elections at the Cook County Clerk's office, which oversees the vote in suburban Cook County.
He said there are potentially enough mail-in ballots that could still come in to decide whether Eileen O'Neill Burke or Clayton Harris wins the Democratic primary for Cook County State's Attorney.
"We're required by law that we will count all the mail ballots through two weeks after election day," Michalowski explained.
"The caveat of course is that they have to be date stamped by the post office by election day, so any ballots that are coming in that are not timely stamped postmark will not be counted."
The Cook County Clerk's office expects about 2,000 more mail-in ballots to come in by the April 2 deadline.
The Chicago Board of Elections said the official count of mail-in ballots is expected to begin Friday and the public can expect to see the first updated unofficial election results from those ballots this evening.
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