The Republican nomination for governor of Illinois is still up in the air, with one of the GOP candidates announcing today that he isn’t conceding the race.
“With over 750-thousand votes cast, this is a .0005 of a percent difference. So, in a race this close, it’s important that every vote count,” said state Sen. Kirk Dillard, who currently trails state Sen. Bill Brady by a very thin margin. Brady and Dillard each have 20% of the vote, in a field of seven candidates. Brady’s current lead over over Dillard is just 420 votes.
Dillard said that there are almost 5,000 provisional ballots that haven’t been counted, 1,000 uncounted absentee ballots, and up to 5,000 absentee ballots that could still be in the mail. “I wish we could resolve this today,” Dillard said. “But the reality is that it takes time for election authorities to do their job and for these votes to be counted.”
