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DuPage Clerk Candidates Tussle Over Election Oversight Issues
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20140924/news/140929172/DuPage Clerk Candidates Tussle Over Election Oversight Issues
9/25/2014
by Robert Sanchez, Daily Herald
Four decades after the DuPage County clerk's office was stripped of its ability to oversee elections, a candidate for the office insists that power should be returned...
Kaczmarek, meanwhile, is the co-founder of a local watchdog group that monitors the election commission.
"I have followed the election commission very closely for 10 years," Kaczmarek said during a recent Daily Herald endorsement interview. "I have found a number of egregious problems there over the years that could have been prevented had it had proper oversight."...
"If you ask any county clerk in the entire state what their number one responsibility is, each one of them would say administration of the electoral process, except for DuPage County," Kaczmarek said...