With the high court’s decision that Auditor General Frank Mautino did, in fact, violate campaign finance laws by spending on fuel and repairs for personal cars, the issue goes back to the Board of Elections. However, the agency in charge of overseeing elections and campaign compliance can’t do much in the way of punishment.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.