Gary Stevens of Bloomington is running for McLean County Board as a write-in candidate. During a meet-and-greet with voters at a Bloomington restaurant, Stevens said he was disappointed and surprised when Donald Trump lost reelection. Stevens said he had suspicions about how Joe Biden won.

Stevens recently watched "2000 Mules," the film that tries to claim Democrats stole the election through illegal ballot harvesting, apparently exposed through cellphone location data. The county GOP sponsored the showing of the movie created by a conservative provocateur.

The film has been widely discredited, but Stevens was sold. “After seeing this film today, it seems like there’s a good basis for there could have been some fraud," Stevens said. “I think there’s a lot of weight to what they said, and I would tend to believe (the election was stolen).”

Stevens is not alone.

Vicki Schultz of Bloomington also is running as a write-in for McLean County Board. Schultz said she'd like to go back to paper ballots only and a photo ID requirement to vote, adding what she saw on the news on election night 2020 bothered her.

“There were a lot of questions I have about some of the things that had occurred, and it makes me wonder what’s going on there,” Schultz said.

Schultz pointed to claims of poll watchers being barred in Pennsylvania and a reported delay in vote counting in Georgia over a pipe break. Those are false. Poll watchers from both the Republican and Democratic parties watched the...

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