York Township Trustee John Morrisey is getting nowhere in his attempt to compel the DuPage County Election Division to properly account for the 20,000 whose mail in ballot applications were returned undelivered.
The township official is also a GOP committeeman. One of his functions is to know the voter rolls inside and out soon he can determine what get out the vote efforts are needed on Election Day.
However, Morrisey said over three percent of the voter rolls, or 20,000 voters, may have inaccurate addresses. This opens the process to possible manipulation and limits the sharing of Election Day data.
“The Election Division should care if the person doesn’t live there,” Morrisey told the DuPage Policy Journal.
With the presidential election at center stage now is more important than ever to get the process correct, Morrisey said.
“Due to this unprecedented workload, voter demand and importance of conducting a presidential election during a national pandemic I'm asking the election division to make immediate arrangements, for immediate distribution, to manage the data/digital marking of 20,000 vote by mail applications that were not delivered by the USPS,” Morrisey wrote to the DuPage Election Division attorney Pat Bond. “This number of undelivered applications represents only about 3.2% of the voter file!”
Morrisey previously questioned the Election Division’s ability to count all mail in ballots by the vote registration deadline given the sharp increase due to the pandemic.
Since bringing the issue to light last month Morrisey said he has seen no movement. Bond has routinely denied his requests.
Now, there are grumblings about a possible lawsuit against the Election Division.
While Morrisey said he does not have the time or resources to mount such an effort he would support it.
“I would sign on to a lawsuit,” Morrisey said.
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