Fox32Chicago.com reported this week that the state’s attorney’s office in DuPage County, Illinois (DuPage County), has filed 2020 election-related charges against five people,, with the charges all being third-degree felonies, including forgery and perjury in an election statute.
DuPage County is a county with a majority of Democratic voters, with 53.1 percent of voters supporting Hillary and only 38.6 percent supporting Trump in 2016; in 2020, Biden‘s approval rating is 58 percent and Trump’s is 39.9 percent.
In three cases, the defendants were trying to vote for someone else, according to a statement from the state attorney’s office. In two other cases, the defendants claimed to live in DuPage County 30 days before the election, but in fact they were living elsewhere.
A judge signed arrest warrants for the five defendants Tuesday, with bail set at $1,000 for each defendant.
Last October, DuPage authorities said they were investigating several cases of mail-in ballot requests for deceased people. There are no 17 states that stipulate that after casting a ballot, but the person dies before the election, such a ballot cannot be counted, as is the rule in Illinois, but there are 10 other U.S. states that explicitly allow such votes to be counted.
Prosecutors say they have investigated 32 cases related to the 2020 election, most of which were closed without charges, and several are still under investigation. State Attorney Robert B. Berlin said the allegations “represent a tiny fraction of the more than 490,000 votes cast in DuPage County.
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