There are at least a dozen things in this story out of Indiana that make my head wanna explode. I don’t have time to really detail any of them in depth for the moment, so check it out in full if you’re inclined and might like your head to explode too.
But one graf in the piece is begging me to highlight it.
The story, as I say, is about Indiana where, apparently, votes cast during the Early Voting period are considered to be Absentee Votes for some reason. Voting during the Early Voting period takes place on 100% unverifiable touch-screen voting machines (head, explode) in Indiana at Vote Centers. State law requires that Absentee Votes be identifiable — in other words, that they can be tied to the person who cast them — so that if a voter should die between the time they cast his/her vote and Election Day, officials are able to go in and remove the vote (kapow).
That is done — with the Early/Absentee Votes cast on touch-screen machines — by including an ID Number on each ballot which, some might accurately point out, robs the voter of a secret vote in the bargain (boom).
That’s the background for the story. But then comes this remarkable comment, included as part of the explanation of what happens when/if a person dies before Election Day and their ballot must be removed [emphasis added]:
My suggestion for a new Indiana state motto: “In Vendors We Trust”.
What could possibly go wrong?
I grew up in Northern Indiana and when my husband and I were moving back to the state 3 yrs ago, we picked Indy as one location to move to and to be close to family. I really had no idea how ‘red’ this state was until I stepped away for a few years.
We are surrounded by a bunch of backwards thinkers and THIS post is another reason why we’re looking to leave as soon as possible. Get me outta here.
I love your blog man, but this is another reason for Indiana and Indy to be in the spot light to embarrass us liberal residents again this week. It’s a balancing act to have such an awesome Super Bowl village set up and then to have this news and the ‘right-to-work’ law get passed on the same week. “Heads are Exploding” in this house.
ouch.
Cheers.
Thanks, Mona. I know it ain’t easy being a Hoosier of late. Hang in there! We need good fighters on the ground! Look to Wisconsin for guidance!
My state and welcome to it…
Yep, WI did inspire me. And the Arab spring. And OWS and now even Russia.
I should not have to read a blog from a guy in CA about what is going on in our state. This is not something that got reported locally. It’s Super Bowl, all day, every day here now. Which is great that they chose our city for this event, but the news cannot get tunnel vision because of it. They are planning a huge protest march today from the Capital Bldg to the Super Bowl Village (about the RTW law passing) so hopefully, the local news will cover that too.
Again, Thanks Brad.
Brad,
Did you see? They convicted Charlie White, the Sec of State (IN) of SIX COUNTS of voter fraud? Bwahaahaaaa. Guess that ID to vote wasn’t much help now was it?
Another day in the life of a Hoosier, sigh.
What could possibly go wrong? Go Wrong? Go Wrong?