Cook County Board
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Cook County Board
Problems with Chicago's and Cook County's new voting system, installed to solve problems with the old punch-card method, also left a hard-fought county race up in the air for nearly a day after the polls closed. In the Cook County Board race, Forrest Claypool, who was running against John H. Stroger Jr. as a reformer looking to end patronage in county government, told his supporters on Wednesday at campaign headquarters, that they brought them so close to victory against the old Democratic machine and that they were challenging virtually all the power brokers in Cook County and Chicago, but they ran a real grass-roots campaign. Mr. Stroger, 76, remains hospitalized in serious but stable condition after suffering a stroke last week.