I missed the part of your post about the differing numbers. Yes all legal votes should counted properly.
It’s just my inking that it’s just BS, Dillard saying there are more votes in his own favor. He is a combiner. It suddenly switches to Dillard I’d plum have trouble believing it was legit.
I wouldn’t want Brady to concede if he was down by the same margin. I have to plead guilty on hypocrisy here. ;D But then again Brady (imo at least) isn’t a combiner so it’s not likely there would chicanery on his behalf.
One of the reasons why it's so close is that Crook County is home to Chicago and has a population of over five million, but Brady did terrible here and only got 5% of the vote. I also broke that down by region... Brady got 5.2% in all of suburban Cook County... 6.75% in my township of 150,000 people, and 16.80% of the vote in my precinct where I knocked on doors for him. Lost to McKenna by one vote in my neck of the woods. Just damn. If I had know it had been this close I would have worked three precincts for him and not handed out Proft's stuff as well (with a note saying they're both solid conservatives but suggesting voters support the strongest conservative in the race)