Help fund a real recount that can win in Illinois

Are you tired of people just talking and posting about suspicious election results?  Here is your chance to get to the bottom of actual election irregularities.  I lead on election night, I was still winning for a whole 14 days after the election, until the final upload from the Democrat County Clerk.   We started to investigate, we found many irregularities, and then you know what?  We got an actual judge to agree and he ordered a full recount.  Then that same Democrat County Clerk tried to block me by asking that I put up almost $300k to do that recount.  So back to court we went and the judge agreed that that was excessive and had it reduced to just under $60,000.  If I get your financial assistance, we can look at every ballot and every vote by mail envelope.       

To be clear success in this recount isn't some long shot either, the court ruled that "as we sit here today, this election is effectively a tie, and there is every reason to believe that the recount has an equal chance of going either way."  The only thing that stands in my way is I need the funds to finish the work.

Please donate today, we have to raise the money by August 27th.     

My name is Bob Grogan.  Here are some more details on what has been happening.  On election night, as I said, I led my Democratic opponent by several thousand votes. My lead shrank with every upload over the next two weeks, but I still led. Finally, with the last upload of votes 14 days after the election, for the first time I was losing. I lost by 75 votes out of 466,167 votes cast in the race. Making the final posted results 50.01% to 49.99%. That margin is about 2 votes a town in DuPage County or 1 vote for every 12 precincts.

A little background about me.  I am a CPA, a Certified Fraud Examiner, and until the November election I was the DuPage County Auditor. I also was honored to serve my peers to serve as President of the Illinois Association of County Auditors. In my 12 years in office, I was the first to put a County Checkbook online, first to create a County Transparency Portal, and the first to create a county Audit hotline. My audit findings have resulted in three convictions, numerous terminations, and significant financial savings. Last year, I uncovered evidence that led to a federal indictment on numerous counts of a Republican elected official.  I am sure the other side regrets that the closest race in the County's history was with an anal retentive, stubborn CPA.

With that historically thin margin, I proceeded to request a discovery recount, which is a process where if you lose by less than 5% you can examine one quarter of the precincts’ ballots. Note that Illinois has no provision for automatic recount. Over a two week period of time, with over 40 volunteers, more than 120k ballots were examined.

Some significant irregularities were observed. Hundreds of vote by mail ballots were found to have no judges’ initials. An entire polling place with more than 400 ballots had not a single ballot that had judges initials. In Illinois, judge’s initials are required by statute to be on every paper ballot. Approximately 10% of the vote by mail envelopes were examined and a handful were found to have a postmark from after Election Day. Ballots must have been mailed by Election Day at the latest according to law here. The most disturbing issue discovered was after requesting a list of every person that voted, that list proved to be 1,626 less that the total number of ballots. Simply put, that indicates more ballots were counted than people who were listed as having voted. This is 20 times the margin in the race.

We filled a legal request for a full recount on December 24th. The “winner” of the auditor race, Democrat attorney Bill White (who had never conducted an audit in his life) had been sworn into the office of Auditor on December 1st. The recount process requires that the winner be served legal notice, Mr. White avoided being served for about 5 weeks.

Finally, after several hearings and filings from both sides, the Judge ordered a full recount (unprecedented for the second largest county in Illinois). The judge in ruling on only the one polling place with no initials on ballots said, “if the 436 ballots at issue are declared defective, and not counted, petitioner would net 82 votes, which exceeds his opponents 75-vote victory margin and would swing the election results in petitioner’s favor.”

What’s next? The Democrat County Clerk is pushing back against the the findings, denying that the more than 1600 extra ballots are not an issue. The democratic Clerk asked for me to post a cash bond of almost $300k to cover costs of a recount. This is on top of the legal fees and costs needed to put a team in place to watch a recount of almost half a million ballots. The judge has now reduced the amount to $56,307.25, to be paid by August 27th.  On top of those court ordered costs, I still have to pay lawyers and cover the expected team of 30 for three weeks.

I am a forensic auditor, not a conspiracy theorist. Any system rushed during a pandemic with a half a million inputs can reasonably have an error rate of more than 1 for every 6000. I want to find out the final result after the irregularities have been separated out, be they accidental or intentional. I can’t do it alone. Illinois stacks the deck against anyone trying to look behind the curtain of a very complex election process. Crazy as it sounds, in Illinois if a candidate finds enough discrepancies to overturn an election, the candidate needs put up cash. We need donations to help cover these significant costs required just to get at the truth.

If you prefer, you can write checks to:

Friends of Bob Grogan

418 Bunning Drive

Downers Grove, IL 60516

or you can donate through my website:

www.votegrogan.com/donate




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