Transparency and the DuPage County Election Commission
Recently the Illinois Attorney General determined that the DuPage County Election Commission has been in non-compliance with the Illinois Local Records Act for
decades. Specifically, the election commission destroyed records without the required transparency to state officials. Election commission officials will
not disclose what records were destroyed and when they were destroyed. DuPage election commission officials continue to maintain that record destruction transparency is “unnecessary paperwork.”
Since the Illinois Attorney General issued an official
opinion about the election record destruction and published the opinion at the Attorney General website, there really would not be anything else to say, except
for the fact that the DuPage States Attorney, who requested the opinion, has declined to prosecute the election commission.
State law says that non-compliance with the Illinois Local Records Act is a felony. Enforcement of the law would include an audit of remaining records and an attempt ... Read More...
