Spot-check of 52 records

DuPage figures, names, seats, totals and winner agree with the signed DuPage canvass and the abstract. The dupageresults.gov summary page was not opened (the signed canvass and abstract are the official documents). Both DuPage PDFs redirect from www.dupagecounty.gov to cms5.revize.com/revize/dupage/ (DuPage's own CMS host).

Column order on the canvass matches the ballot order on Kane's candidate list; matching by column order is confirmed visually on the rendered page. The City elections page was fetched by curl, not opened in a browser.

All six figures match. The AEC's single Ward 10 precinct (Ward 10 Pct 01, 369/657 counted) voted on the Kane County Forest Preserve proposition and not in the Wheatland (Will) or Oswego Township (Kendall) contests, so 'Kane' in counties_included is consistent; in 2017 the AEC also ran Aurora's Kendall and Will precincts, so AEC + DuPage covers the whole ward. The record uses DuPage's spelling 'Robert H. Paolichhi'; the AEC prints 'ROB.PAOLICCHI'. The record has no names_as_printed entry for the AEC spelling (other records in this sample do record such variants). The DuPage results-site summary.zip was not opened.

All 25 county figures match. Each Kendall figure was read from a zoomed view of the Kendall PDF in Chrome and equals its election day + early + VBM + post/prov parts. DeKalb's scan prints each number slightly below its name; the five combined totals on Kane's certified abstract (PDF page 103) agree only with the recorded assignment, which confirms it. The LaSalle URL redirects to lasallecountyil.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/231 (the same official file). The Waubonsee minutes URL redirects to /sites/default/files/docs/2023-05/2023.04.27BoardSeatingMeetingMinutes.pdf.

Kendall figures read from a zoomed view of the scanned report in Chrome; each equals its election-day + early/absentee + provisional parts (2,360+540+4; 1,980+416+4) and the printed 54.75/45.25 split. The Kane 2015 cumulative report was an extra completeness check, not a cited source.

Kendall figures agree across three Kendall reports (EL45A, EL86, EL52) and equal their component columns. The record's note quoting the EL52 combined canvass is accurate.

As the record says, the Kane abstracts.pdf page for the 2019 contests is headed 'Consolidated Election on April 4, 2017' and 'Dated: April 25, 2017' (an error in Kane's document); it is used only as a cross-check.

Rendered page checked visually: 3,962 sits on the Assessor line (Supervisor 3,994, Clerk 3,846, Highway Commissioner 3,970).

Kaseska's DuPage 1,392 (smaller than his Will 1,665) was checked specifically: DuPage prints 3.65 % (1,392 / 38,146) and the abstract Total column also prints 1,392. Will figures were checked in Will's own canvass book; each equals its vote-by-mail + early + election-day + provisional + postmark parts.

Printed percentages use a denominator of 20,549 (abstract 'Total votes'), 108 more than the five listed candidates; this is consistent with uncounted-name write-ins and does not affect the recorded figures.

All five minutes pages fetched by curl (HTML minutes). Ormond was present and voting at the 2017-05-01 meeting before the reorganization; his service ended at that meeting when the newly elected members were sworn in.

The Granicus attachment redirects to a Granicus S3 file named '4.24.25 Org Board Meeting.v2.edited.pdf'. The April 16, 2026 minutes are the version submitted for approval on May 14, 2026 (Item 9.c); their call-to-order line says 'April 14, 2026' while the header says April 16, 2026. The minutes record the student trustee answering roll calls; the budget text calls the seat non-voting.

The three Drive minutes were fetched without sign-in via drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=<same file id> (served from drive.usercontent.google.com; file names 2023-05-08_Board_Meeting_Minutes.pdf, 2025-05-05 Board Meeting Minutes.pdf, 2026-10-13 Committee of the Whole - Minutes.pdf). BoardDocs refused curl with HTTP 403 (CloudFront), so it was read as a public page in Chrome without signing in.

The appointment motion text does not name the appointee; the name comes from the oath paragraph that follows it.

No cited letter is wrong. The current Section 7 text (version 'from P.A. 104-852', eff. 8-21-26, before amendment by P.A. 104-300) has (a), (b), (c), (d), (f), (g), (h), (l), (m), (n), (p), (r), (v) and (kk) with the subjects described. Flagged: (1) the glosses for (g) and (v) leave out the conditions that limit those exemptions (competitive harm; 'only to the extent' disclosure would expose the vulnerability); (2) source_url points to an out-of-date ftp.ilga.gov copy. Enacted amendments not yet in force, all eff. 1-1-27: P.A. 104-300 adds the public-defender (a) and relabels (a) as (a-5), as the record says. P.A. 104-526 adds a new (vv) for records described in Section 25.1 of the Health Care Violence Prevention Act. The Section 7 page header reads 'P.A. 104-626', but its Source line and 210 ILCS 160/25.1 both say 104-526, so the header looks like a typo. P.A. 104-742 changes…

Status key used in this file: mismatch = at least one statement differs from the cited text; partial = nothing contradicted, but a statement is unsupported by the cited sections or leaves out a limiting condition. Here the one mismatch is the daily penalty: the summary puts it under 'must impose', but 11(j) says the court 'may impose' it, and only if all three conditions hold (not just non-compliance after 30 days). Minor wording points that were not marked as mismatches: 11(j) says 'willfully and intentionally ... or otherwise acted in bad faith', where the record says 'willful, intentional or bad-faith'; and 11.6(b) lets the body rebut the presumption by showing a good-faith effort to comply. The record's source_url (ftp.ilga.gov) loads and shows the same Source line as www.ilga.gov.

Every deadline, threshold and fee matches the current text. Source lines: Sec. 2 (P.A. 103-554, 104-438), Sec. 3 (P.A. 104-438), Sec. 3.1 (P.A. 96-542), Sec. 3.2 (P.A. 97-579, 98-756), Sec. 3.6 (P.A. 98-1129), Sec. 6 (P.A. 97-579, 98-1129), Sec. 9.5 (P.A. 103-69, 104-438). None of these pages shows a pending amendment. Minor points: the $10 search fee in 6(f) is a cap ('may charge up to'), and 6(f) also covers time spent reviewing records for redactions. Under 2(h), one record over 500 pages does not by itself make a request voluminous. Under 2(g) and 2(h), news-media, non-profit, scientific and academic requests are also excluded from the recurrent and voluminous categories; the record states that exclusion only for 'commercial'. The record's source_url (ftp.ilga.gov 3.6) loads and matches the current Source line.

All statements match. Not stated in the record, and not contradicted by it: 2.06(e) and (f) also give elected officials, and appointees filling an elected vacancy, access to closed recordings and minutes; website posting applies to regular-meeting minutes of the governing body. The record's source_url (ftp.ilga.gov 2.06) loads and matches the current Source line.

One wording point: the record says the body 'may adopt' rules, but 2.05 says the authority 'shall prescribe reasonable rules to govern the right'. That makes the rules a duty, not an option. The statute does not use the words 'can't ban'. The right itself ('any person may record') is stated as the record says. The record's source_url (ftp.ilga.gov 2.05) loads and matches the current text.

The right and the 'established and recorded' requirement match 2.06(g) word for word. The PAC sentence in how_to_use has no support in the cited section. Citing 120/3.5(a) and its 60-day filing window would support the 'can be raised with the PAC' part. The statute has nothing on 'applied arbitrarily'. The record's source_url (ftp.ilga.gov 2.06) loads and matches the current text.

Two mismatches. (1) 9-10(e-5) counts independent expenditures supporting OR opposing one official or candidate; the record says 'against one candidate'. (2) The fine range is wrong and its subsection is not cited. 9-10(g) sets rising caps ($500 / $1,000 / $2,000 / $3,000 for the 1st / 2nd / 3rd / later violations), no minimum, and no fine above the contribution amount. Everything else matches 9-10(b), (c), (e) and 9-17. The record's source_url (ftp.ilga.gov 9-10) loads and matches the current Source line. A first try at https://www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisclosure/ returned 403, which is a directory URL. The site's Campaign Disclosure page loaded normally.

One mismatch. deadlines_fees_limits limits the free first 2 hours of search and first 100 pages to 'non-commercial, non-media' requesters. 552(a)(4)(A)(iv)(II) applies it to clause (ii)(II), which includes educational, noncommercial scientific and news-media requesters, and to clause (III). The summary's fee sentence, which ties the free allowance only to 'all others', should be fixed at the same time. One unsupported statement: 'in writing' and 'no form is required' do not appear in 552(a)(3); the statute defers to each agency's published rules. 'US citizen or not' follows from 'any person' and is not marked. The old uscode.house.gov view.xhtml URL now returns 'Page Not Found'. The current OLRC page is https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-136/t5/s552/. Copies saved: evidence/B/01-usc-5-552 (govinfo) and evidence/B/02-cornell-5-552 (LII).

The quote is exact and the sentence says no more than the passage.

The quote is exact and the sentence is supported. The section also has item veto of appropriations and a 6-day return rule, which the sentence neither claims nor needs. The statute is general. The '(Will County)' label is the record's own and is not tested by this passage. For context, the willcounty.gov site menu, seen while checking B-service-3, has a 'County Executive' link (https://willcounty.gov/County-Executive).

The quote is exact and contiguous. Section 50-5 applies outside Cook County, which covers every Aurora-area township (Kane, DuPage, Will and Kendall counties).

The quote is exact and the sentence stays within it. 'Land' is a fair paraphrase of 'real estate, or rights therein'.

The quote is exact, in both the browser and the curl copy. The only gap is the opening general clause 'Board members are elected', which goes beyond a passage about one district. This is minor because the sentence presents District 131 as 'for example'. If a general statement is wanted, a citation covering all school districts would be needed.

Everything in 'what' is on the page in the page's own words. Saved copies: evidence/B/04-kane-treasurer and evidence/B/05-kane-county-home.

The page was only viewed. No search was submitted and no data was entered, and no CAPTCHA appeared. willcountyclerk.gov answered curl with an empty 202, so it was read in the browser and no copy was saved. The Clerk's home page also links the same URL as 'My Voting Information'.

Matches on 2026-10-29. Timing caveat from the page itself: the online payment portal closes 11/13/26 at 4:30pm and reopens 5/1/27, so the 'payment portal' description will not hold during that window. The heading is 'Quick Access'; the record's 'quick links' is lowercase and not quoted, so it was not marked. Saved copy: evidence/B/06-will-treasurer.

Everything in 'what' is present. The site refused the scripted request (403), so the page was read in the browser only.

Correct body and correct label. The site's own page title misspells 'District' as 'Disrict'. Saved copy: evidence/B/08-naperville-parks-contact.

Correct body and label. Watch-outs for whoever maintains this record: (1) Kane County's Township Assessors page links 'Sugar Grove Township' to https://www.sugargrovetownship.com/. That is the Township Assessor's site (title 'Sugar Grove Township Assessor'), not the township government site. (2) The township site still lists e-mail at sgtownship.com, and the sgtownship.com website is a GoDaddy parked page. No independent government page linking townshipofsugargrove.com was found; neither the Kane County home page nor the Village of Sugar Grove home page has one. Ownership rests on the site's own content and its consistency with the assessor's site. Saved copies: evidence/B/09-sugar-grove-township and evidence/B/11-kane-township-assessors.

Correct body (Kendall County, Illinois) and label. The county links it, and the .com domain redirects to it. Saved copy: evidence/B/10-oswego-township. kendallcountyil.gov refuses curl (403), so the county page was read in the browser.

Title, action, result and every member's vote match the Legistar API vote table, the legislation page's Action details and the minutes. Only mismatch: the legislation_page URL uses the API MatterId/MatterGuid (ID=5051) and does not open; Legistar answers 'Invalid parameters!'. Item was on the Consent Agenda; Legistar copies the Consent Agenda roll call (11 Aye, 1 Nay) onto the item. The Mayor is listed present in the minutes but not among the voters, which Legistar shows as Not Voting.

Title, action, result and every member's vote match the Legistar API vote table, the legislation page's Action details and the minutes. Only mismatch: the legislation_page URL uses the API MatterId/MatterGuid (ID=6214) and does not open; Legistar answers 'Invalid parameters!'. The per-member Ayes come from Legistar's vote table, which is the Consent Agenda roll call (11:0; Legistar marks the item Consent=1 and its Action details show mover Hart-Burns, seconder Garza). The minutes instead list 17-00668 under REPORT with a separate motion (Hart-Burns, seconded by Jenkins) that 'carried by voice vote', so the minutes record no individual votes for this item. Ted Mesiacos is absent from both the record and Legistar because the minutes list him absent.

Title, action, result and every member's vote match the Legistar API vote table, the legislation page's Action details and the minutes. Only mismatch: the legislation_page URL uses the API MatterId/MatterGuid (ID=4294) and does not open; Legistar answers 'Invalid parameters!'. Scheketa Hart-Burns is not in the record or in Legistar's vote table; the minutes list her absent. The legislation page shows the file at Version 3.

Title, action, result and every member's vote match the Legistar API vote table, the legislation page's Action details and the minutes. Only mismatch: the legislation_page URL uses the API MatterId/MatterGuid (ID=5360) and does not open; Legistar answers 'Invalid parameters!'. Minutes: the meeting was chaired by 'Mayor O'Conner' (Mayor Tom Weisner not listed present; Legistar: Excused). Lynne Johnson arrived about 6:15 p.m. and is not in the Consent Agenda Aye list (Legistar: Not Voting).

Title, action, result and every member's vote match the Legistar API vote table, the legislation page's Action details and the minutes. Only mismatch: the legislation_page URL uses the API MatterId/MatterGuid (ID=9535) and does not open; Legistar answers 'Invalid parameters!'. Not a consent item; separate roll call 12:0. Mayor Irvin present (minutes) and shown Not Voting in Legistar.

All recorded fields match the API (/matters/15853, /histories, texts/19783). The resolution text has no sentence on when it takes effect (it only states the agreement's term, Jan 1 2025 to Dec 31 2026, and retroactive wages), so an empty effect_clauses list is right. Caution: the 10/20 and 10/27 steps come from the API only; Legistar lists both meetings' minutes as Draft and the legislation page still shows those rows with no action or result. The Finance Committee step had a 5-0 roll call (Action details), which Legistar's MatterHistoryTally field leaves empty, as does the record.

All recorded fields match the API (/matters/15917, /histories, texts/19856), the legislation page and the final 10/13 minutes (Enactment No: R26-260). No effective-date sentence in the text. Title differs from Legistar only by doubled spaces. The record's tally is null like Legistar's MatterHistoryTally field, although the minutes and Action details show a 10-0 roll call (Aye: 10, Mayor not voting); the site omits rather than misstates it.

All recorded fields match the API (/matters/15952, /histories, texts/19893). No effective-date sentence in the resolution text. Caution: the 10/20 and 10/27 steps come from the API only; Legistar lists both meetings' minutes as Draft and the legislation page shows those rows with no action or result yet. Tallies are null in the record and in MatterHistoryTally; the final 10/14 committee minutes show 'Ayes: 4'.

Timeline, status, dates, enactment number (R26-251, confirmed in the final 10/13 minutes) and the empty effect_clauses match. Title: the record uses Legistar's MatterTitle, which is also the title on all three agendas, the Action details pages and the 10/6 Committee of the Whole and 10/13 City Council minutes. But the legislation page (file Version 2, the version every history step cites), the Version 2 text's title line and the 9/22 committee minutes give a different title: 'A Resolution to approve the purchase of 10 United Shield brand ballistic shields and accessories from MES Life Safety of Lombard, Illinois in an amount not to exceed $66,000.00'. A reader who follows the link will see that title. Version 1's text is empty. Tallies: null in the record and in MatterHistoryTally; the committee's Action details show 5-0.

Value, quote, page, fiscal year, fund and category confirmed; requests 9-45 add up to the printed 3,930,600. Status: the record's 'proposed' follows the dataset's stated convention (documents up to the Dec 8, 2025 final proposal are 'proposed'). Note that the schedule was attached to O25-095, which the Council adopted on Dec 9, 2025 (8-4) after one floor amendment adding 400,000 to account 101-1360-450.50-20 (not a carryover), so this carryover total also went into the adopted budget unchanged.

Official URL answered HTTP 403 to curl on 2026-10-29 (HEAD), so the hash-verified local copy was used; its manifest URL equals the record's url, and the City's Budget page currently links that URL as '2027 Proposed Budget(PDF, 77MB)' (local copy 80,365,753 bytes). Page numbers: printed page first, PDF page in brackets where they differ.

Official URL answered HTTP 403 to curl on 2026-10-29 (HEAD), so the hash-verified local copy was used; its manifest URL equals the record's url, and the City's Budget page currently links that URL as '2027 Proposed Budget(PDF, 77MB)' (local copy 80,365,753 bytes). Page numbers: printed page first, PDF page in brackets where they differ.

Official URL answered HTTP 403 to curl on 2026-10-29 (HEAD), so the hash-verified local copy was used; its manifest URL equals the record's url, and the City's Budget page currently links that URL as '2027 Proposed Budget(PDF, 77MB)' (local copy 80,365,753 bytes). Page numbers: printed page first, PDF page in brackets where they differ. The quote, project and fund are right. Two problems: (1) the page is printed 1001, not 'no printed page number' (the same claim is made for F255, PDF p. 963, which is printed 926; F255 is not in this sample); (2) 'no amount' is true only of the carryover sentence: the same sheet budgets 250,000 for 2027 (Water & Sewer 90,000, Grant-State 160,000), and the 2027 budget accounts show 160,000 of state grant revenue while the two expenditure accounts are left blank. If 'no amount' means 'the 2027 expenditure accounts carry no amount', the record should say so.

Official URL answered HTTP 403 to curl on 2026-10-29 (HEAD), so the hash-verified local copy was used; its manifest URL equals the record's url, and the City's Budget page currently links that URL as '2027 Proposed Budget(PDF, 77MB)' (local copy 80,365,753 bytes). Page numbers: printed page first, PDF page in brackets where they differ.

Local copy is the Wayback capture recorded in the manifest (official URL returned 403 to curl); hash verified before use. The sentence continues: '... issued to finance the construction of a new police headquarters (completed in 2010), the new public works facility and three fire stations.'

Words match the YouTube machine transcript exactly; the quote ends mid-sentence ('... as to what it would generate, but it would take significant amount of tax or uh staff time to get to that point.'). The 1:02:33 caption segment starts with the presenter's closing sentence, so the quoted words begin a few seconds after 1:02:33 while the 'Questions' slide is on screen; the camera cuts to the Mayor at about 1:02:41. Minutes for this meeting are still Draft in Legistar, so no written record of the remark was available to compare.

Words match the machine transcript exactly; the quoted words start partway through the 1:00:31 segment. The slide named in the record is on screen at 1:00:33 and still at about 1:00:44. The speaker is identified from his spoken self-introduction and the continuity of the presentation; the video shows the slide, not the speaker, at this moment. The machine transcript renders the surname 'Rashard Thompson'; the record's 'Richard-Thompson' matches the City's own memos.