A publishing company sued by Democratic Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul for improperly publicizing personal dates of birth and home addresses for hundreds of thousands of voters has settled the case without admitting criminal wrongdoing.
Local Government Information Services, Inc., a Lake Forest-based operator of dozens of right-leaning online news outlets that have peddled election conspiracy theories, entered into the previously unreported settlement agreement with Raoul’s office in late January.
The agreement in Lake County Circuit Court requires the company to destroy any restricted voter data it had that included birth dates and home addresses and to refrain from publishing any such data if it originated from voter roll information that originated from the Illinois State Board of Elections…