Dupage Policy Journal

DuPage County business owner and activist Margot Henshaw Day is hoping that this cycle of redistricting will end up with a fairer representation of Illinois.

"The last redistricting was really nothing more than an elaborate gerrymander to carve up whatever republican strongholds existed in Dupage County,” Henshaw told the DuPage Policy Journal. “At this point, with the mail-in voting, weeks of 'early' voting, no voter identification, bloated unverified voter rolls — worrying about the current redistricting is akin to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.”

Henshaw is willing to see desperate measures taken to get the job done as she sees fit. 

“Illinois needs to purge its voter rolls, have the National Guard [from another state] re-register voters with proper identification and proof of residency and stop the nonsense of early voting and mail-in voting,” the Burr Ridge resident said. “Absentee ballots should be rare and well-vetted. No more 'curing' of ballots. No ballot harvesting. Oh, and one last thing — no election returns announced until noon on the day following the election. Whatever has been counted at that time, that's the number. Noon, the following day, we know the results.”

Henshaw said it’s time everyone across the state stood up and was counted in terms of demanding the right thing. 

“It would be great to see Illinois cleansed of graft, corruption, voter fraud and absurd gerrymandering,” she said, “But in Illinois for too many decades, the good people have been too busy or too trusting to do anything about it. And in the words of Edmund Burke, "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."

There has been no proof of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election.