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Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
The Big Lie has made its way to DuPage County. An organization called Breakthrough Ideas claims voter fraud tainted the results of the November 2020 election in suburban DuPage County, a onetime Republican bastion that has increasingly leaned Democratic in recent years. Leading the group’s effort is former GOP state Rep. Jeanne Ives, who lost to Bruce Rauner in the 2018 Republican gubernatorial primary. She called her organization’s findings evidence of “outright negligence in assuring we have fair elections in DuPage County.” Those findings? Breakthrough Ideas cross-checked voter records with…