A series of speakers representing an advocacy group called Unite for Freedom and allied volunteers urged the Cook County Board on Sept. 17 to support a proposed resolution calling for review and corrective action after an audit of Illinois’ 2024 general election data.

Tom Kozick and other volunteers said their group analyzed official state election files and alleged “material registration errors and omissions” and “excess votes” in the state’s 2024 results. Kozick said the group has shared its findings with state election officials and law enforcement and had filed material in parallel litigation; he asked the board to adopt a resolution demanding measures to ensure a “legally valid” 2026 general election.

A later speaker, Ken Zitko, told commissioners the group had presented similar resolutions in counties across Illinois in 2024 and asked the board to put the issue on a future agenda so the group could provide a fuller presentation and answer questions. Jody Zitko, who said she is a Kane County resident and former Cook County resident, argued the U.S. Department of Justice needs access to unredacted voter records to evaluate compliance with federal statutes.

Speakers cited U.S. Supreme Court case Reynolds v. Sims and federal laws including the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 and the Help America Vote Act of 2002. They presented numerical claims including, according to their materials, millions of registration errors and more than one million votes they said were improperly counted; those figures were asserted by speakers and attributed to the group’s audit.

Board members did not act on a county resolution at the Sept. 17 meeting. Presenters requested that the board invite them back, place the item on a committee agenda and permit a longer, evidentiary presentation. The board did not adopt any of the remedial measures the speakers proposed at the meeting.

Because the claims presented at the podium were described as the group’s audit results and as evidence submitted to state officials and courts, news coverage should treat the figures as allegations that require independent verification from election officials and court records.