Dupage Policy Journal

Bob Grogan is convinced his legal battle stemming from his November run for DuPage County Auditor is headed in the right direction.

"This morning the judge ruled on the clerk's inflated request that I pay almost $300k for the court ordered recount,” Grogan posted on Facebook. “The judge reduced the likely costs to $112,614.59. He then went on to say that because the anomalies I have found would overturn the election in the DuPage County Auditor's race, it is essentially a tie. As such, the amount I have to pay is reduced by 50% of the costs, which comes out to $56,307.25."

Grogan has been demanding answers ever since Election Day results had him falling 75 votes short of victory. Grogan contends the number of votes cast in the race totals more than the number of registered voters.

“We found 240 ballots in vote by mail that … were also missing judges’ initials (net pickup for me of 56),” Grogan recently posted on Facebook. “This was only looking at a quarter of the cast ballots. Note that state statute requires all ballots to have a judge’s initials.”

As his team dug deeper, Grogan said they only found more anomalies, such as uncovering there were at least three precincts where all ballots were missing judges’ initials.

“We also asked for a list of all people that voted and we found that that list had more than 1600 fewer names than the total number of ballots cast in the county,” he said in another Facebook post. “Now know that a ‘discovery recount’ (which is what we were doing) is not the process where you see something wrong, object, and it is set aside to rule on the issue. A discovery recount is just us looking at things (never touching, that’s what the election judges were there for).”

With a slew of other issues he insists he’d like to have answers for also still lingering, Grogan said he can sense Democrats going on the defensive.

“The other party is already gearing up their negativity,” he said. “Look, if I lost I lost, if I didn’t lose, then how dare they pretend nothing is wrong? I am not one who promotes grand conspiracies. As a professional licensed CPA I look at audit evidence and if that evidence says something warrants further study or a different conclusion then what are they afraid of?”