Voter Fraud: Lake County GOP Sues

Lake Villa Review, Lake County, Illinois. The Princess the Goldfish, Voter saga continues:

The Illinois Republican Party and Lake County Republican Party filed a lawsuit today regarding alleged voter registration violations that have been identified by the Lake County Clerk's Office.

The lawsuit was filed in Lake County Circuit Court against Lake County Clerk Willard Helander, Terrence LeNoir and Citizen Action/Illinois. The lawsuit says Lenoir, who was working on behalf of Citizen Action/Illinois, delivered hundreds of "fraudulent, incomplete or illegitimate" voter registration forms to the Lake County Clerk's office between Feb. 5 and Oct. 6 of this year.

The lawsuit seeks an emergency injunction that would require that all ballot applications registered by LeNoir and Citizen Action/Illinois be separately coded by the clerk's office and those voters by required to cast provisional ballots until the integrity of the voter registrations could be verified.

The suit also would require the clerk to require all first-time voters to produce identification when they visit the polling places.

During a press conference at Lake County Republican headquarters in Libertyville, Illinois Republican Party chairman Andy McKenna said the party filed the lawsuit to protect the "integrity" of the election.

McKenna said the lawsuit was filed after Helander identified more than 1,000 questionable voter registration forms that had been submitted to the county clerk's office since August.

"We're very concerned that it could have a huge impact on the election results," said Dan Venturi, chairman of the Lake County Republican Party. "What we're talking about are fraudulent registrations that could tip the balance in a close election."

John Fogarty, an attorney for the state Republican Party, said they hope to get a hearing on the emergency injunction within the next two days.

Meanwhile, the Lake County State's Attorney's Office is continuing a criminal investigation into alleged voter registration violations but is not releasing any details of its investigation at this point.