17 COUNTIES IN ILLINOIS HAVE MORE REGISTERED VOTERS THAN ELIGIBLE RESIDENTS

With Illinois’ colorful political history, jokes are often made about deceased residents voting, and Cook County and Chicago usually are cited as the most egregious locations ofsuch fraud. But according to a report by the Public Interest Legal Foundation, 17 Illinois counties have more registered voters than residents who are eligible to vote, and Cook County isn’t even on that list.

The organization sent out statutory notice letters to the 17 Illinois counties, plus 124 others nationwide, informing them of the discrepancies and warning them that if the records weren’t rectified, the foundation could sue the counties after 90 days for a violation of the National Voter Registration Act. The Public Interest Legal Foundation also says they are asking for more information in the letters.

These are the Illinois counties found to be harboring possibly fraudulent voting records along with their percentage of over-registration (where available), according to WJBC Radio:

• Franklin County, 190 percent
• Pulaski County, 176 percent
• Washington County
• Henderson County, 148 percent
• Union County, 138 percent
• Rock Island County, 133 percent
• Alexander County, 130 percent
• Massac County, 125 percent
• Hardin County, 119 percent
• Mercer County–109 percent
• Crawford County, 109 percent
• Wabash County, 105 percent
• White County, 104 percent
• Jersey County, 104 percent
• Jefferson County, 102 percent
• Sangamon County, 101 percent
• Scott County, 101 percent

A representative for the organization said:

“Corrupted voter rolls provide the perfect environment for voter fraud,” said J. Christian Adams, President and General Counsel of PILF.  “Close elections tainted by voter fraud turned control of the United States Senate in 2009.  Too much is at stake in 2016 to allow that to happen again.”

There are 21 states with over-registered counties. Michigan has the most with 24, though Illinois’ 17 is not far behind, in third place. A few of Illinois’ other neighbors also show too many voters: Kentucky, Indiana, Iowa and Missouri were also on the list put on notice by the Public Interest Legal Foundation.

The foundation’s press release said it plans to monitor the counties to see if their voterrecords are cleaned up.

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