Indiana

Ballot Battle

By Abdul Hakim-Shabazz

A Marion County Judge is ordering County Clerk Beth White to instruct all poll workers to treat any challenged mail-in absentee ballot like a provisional ballot.  

Marion County Republicans argued that the Clerk’s training manual was incorrect when it told poll workers to put all absentee ballots into voting machines.

The GOP said the clerk failed to instruct poll workers about what to do when ballots were challenged and that once ballots were put in the voting machine they were considered cast.

White says she will comply with the Court order.

So far more than 85,000 absentee ballots have been requested.and 26,000 have been returned by mail.

Full post as published by Indiana Barrister on October 31, 2008 (boomark / email).