July 21, 2018
Illinois Pioneers Election Manipulation at the State Legislative Level
Chicago has long been nationally famous for manipulating election results. Its reputation for registering voters with a cemetery address, registering the homeless, and allowing people to vote more than once is legendary. What is not so well known is how Illinois has, along with other blue states, established new methods of stealing votes at the level of the state legislature.
The plain fact is, when voters in Illinois elect state representatives and state senators, they vote for persons who are supposed to represent their interests. Republican voters want to see the Republican platform enacted into state legislation, and Democratic voters want to see Democrat ideas enacted into state legislation. That's the basis of the representative form of government.
But since January of 2017, the Illinois House of Representatives, led by Speaker Michael Madigan, has developed new techniques to steal the voice of voters and control...(Read Full Article)