Posted on 05/17/2021 8:27:13 AM PDT by PBRCat
A DuPage County judge has ordered a full recount of the November race for DuPage County auditor, ruling there are enough ballots in question to potentially overturn the results.
"Any in-precinct ballot that is not initialed shall be deemed defective and not counted," Judge Craig R. Belford wrote in a written ruling Wednesday.
According to the initial count, incumbent Republican Bob Grogan lost to Democratic challenger William "Bill" White by 75 votes, 233,121 to 233.046.
Grogan sought a recount, claiming in court filings that an election judge at a Downers Grove Township polling place failed to initial all ballots as required by Illinois law. In Downers Grove Township precincts 76, 118, and 130, a total of 436 uninitialed ballots were cast, 259 for White and 177 for Grogan, documents state
Grogan contends that if the uninitialed ballots are declared invalid and not counted, he would beat White by seven votes.
In his ruling, Belford wrote that the Illinois Supreme Court is clear that "statutes requiring election judges to initial ballots are mandatory" and "uninitialed ballots may not be counted."
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Excellent point.
“The world is really upside down when a local candidate can get a full recount and may overturn an election by a corrupt state like Illinois enforcing its election statutes of ballot processing while the courts turned a blind eye to massive election fraud, ballot curing, and ballot dumps designed to benefit Joe Biden.”
Not really. No risk of the burning down of cities if it’s overturned, so it’s ok to enforce the rules here.
“Not addressed in this ruling, but we will certainly be looking into why there are +1600 more ballots than people who voted,” he [Grogan] wrote.”
This statement the article quoted from Grogan’s website is very interesting. It’s unclear if the recount will be by hand or by rigged machine, and especially whether this business of 1600+ more votes than voters will be examined.
I bet Grogan expects to end up ahead by a lot more than the 7 votes margin related to the “un-initialed ballots”.
As long as nobody wants yo look at the software, they’ll throw voters a bone.
The article describes a state court enforcing state election laws.
The selection of Electors from each state in a Presidential election is a responsibility of that state’s legislature. That is basically why the Arizona Senate has been able to conduct the present audit. Each state legislature has the power to oversee the selection of Electors. This power is granted by the Constitution and cannot be denied to any state legislature.
We are probably going to learn more about this in coming months. Any misbehavior allowed during the election process was due to inaction of the Arizona Legislature. It’s their job to fix this if they want a different outcome in the future. Assuming that fraud was perpetrated, the Legislature has the responsibility to uncover the fraud, see that the guilty are punished, and modify the process to eliminate fraud in the future.
And if those 1600 extra votes come into play and it’s shown they went to the Dem, it really shows just how huge, insane, emboldened and desperate the Democrat machine is.
Quite scary when you think of it.
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