Dupage Policy Journal

Former DuPage County Auditor Bob Grogan said the voting system in Illinois is ripe for the kind of fraud that he claims cost him his seat.

“The way we have our rules set up it's open season for people to do those things,” Grogan told the DuPage Policy Journal. “I would have no doubt that there are more than 75 people who now live someplace else that voted in this election in DuPage County and they shouldn’t have.”

Grogan lost his re-election bid to Democrat William White by those 75 votes (233,121 to 233,046). Five people have been charged in the area with voting on behalf of dead people in the November general election.

Though White was sworn in on Dec. 1, Grogan has now filed suit seeking a full recount. The next court date is scheduled for April 24. His court filing comes after he first filed a petition in DuPage against White and county Clerk Jean Kaczmarek, requesting that he be declared the winner based on “irregularities” he alleges including election judges not initialing ballots and more ballots being cast than the number of people who voted.

Grogan said the verdict is already in when it comes to the system.

“The thing is, the way the rules are it’s so hard to remove people from voter rolls you open yourself up,” he said. “My gut (feeling) is there is a lot of little fraud. We found a lot of ballots that didn’t have judges' initials, which makes you suspicious. We asked for a list of everybody that voted and it was over 1,600 less than the ballots cast.”