A group of volunteers and organizers from Unite for Freedom and allied organizations used the public-comment portion of the Champaign County Board meeting to push for a local resolution calling for audits and procedural changes to election administration ahead of the 2026 general election.
Several out-of-county speakers presented an identical proposed resolution and cited a private audit of the Illinois 2024 general election files. Speakers included Brian Jones and Ken Zitko, who said the group's auditors measured irregularities in state-certified election files, and Babe Poxtus and Tom Kozick, who read sections of the proposed resolution aloud.
What was proposed: Speakers asked the county to adopt a resolution that would call for stricter voter-roll maintenance, verification of voter eligibility, chain-of-custody measures for ballots, and possible re-administration of elections that cannot be proven accurate. Speakers referenced the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, the Help America Vote Act of 2002 and the U.S. Constitution as legal bases for their request and cited Reynolds v. Sims in framing the importance of accurate voting rolls.
Board response and outcome: The board did not place the proposed resolution on the agenda or vote on it during the meeting. Board members indicated that such a resolution, if the board wished to consider it, would need to be placed on a future agenda and that the presenters were welcome to request an agenda slot for a fuller presentation.
Context and claims: Presenters said they had shared their findings with state election officials and law enforcement and had submitted evidence to litigation pending in federal court. The presenters provided large numerical claims during the public comment (for example, a number presented as "1,045,659 votes improperly counted"), but the board did not evaluate or adopt those figures at the meeting.
What to watch: The board will consider whether to schedule a formal agenda item for the resolution on a future meeting date; the presenters asked to be invited back with a full presentation and said materials are available on their website.