Election Day snippets

Indianapolis Star reports at the polls.

The polls opened at 6 a.m. today for a primary dominated by local races, local issues and charges overnight that both parties are unprepared to run the election.
Republicans and Democrats will be picking candidates for Indianapolis mayor, Carmel mayor, city-county council members, town council members and much more.
The parties exchanged late-night charges accusing the other of being ill-prepared for today's vote.

The volley started at around 10:30 p.m. Monday when Republicans called a 10:45 p.m. news conference to complain that Marion County Clerk Beth White had failed to secure inspectors in over 20 percent of Marion County's precincts.

White, who was not immediately available for comment, had attacked GOP preparedness in past elections in her successful campaign last year.

Then the Democrats countered with their own attack.

They expressed concern late Monday that Republican Secretary of State Todd Rokita is overstepping his legal authority by sending 10 unauthorized deputies to Lake County to monitor today's primary election.

Rokita said last week that he has the legal authority to send poll watchers into any precinct he wants, the Democrats said.

"Under that premise, Todd Rokita could create an army of deputies to canvass the state and intimidate voters for political purposes," said Democratic Party Chairman Dan Parker in a prepared statement.

Rokita wasn't immediately available for comment.

Most voters, however, will likely be focused on races like the Indianapolis mayor's race.

Democrats will be out working to get Mayor Bart Peterson the nomination for another term.

Peterson will start Primary Election Day by casting his ballot at Castleton Church of the Nazarene, 7848 Allisonville Road, at 7:30 a.m.

He will then visit various polling places throughout the county, said party spokesman Terry Burns.

GOP leaders will be pushing to get their preferred candidate for mayor Greg Ballard the nomination.

He plans to visit more than 10 precincts before the polls close at 6 p.m.

No surprise with that news, there was a reason for the lawsuit in requiring I.D. to vote. And the reason did not have anything to do with voters trying to vote more than once but more to do with folks being discouraged from casting their votes.

Here on the planation, in Fort Wayne, voter's turnout has been low. 5% by noontime, with only 60 registered voters out of 300 voters at one precinct voting, reported by 15 news reporter, Brian.

AWB reports to work and finds that 2 of the 4 machines were not sealed. AWB working from Preston Pointe Apartments in Aboite is ..an angry white man. AWB is overseeing Colony Bay according to the liber. site. A comment on his site states:
..the westview church this morning and in the first 1-1/2 hours, 90% of those voting were voting for Matt. Between 8:00 - 9:00 it was more difficult to know who was voting for who. Most people didn’t want to talk to us. I guess bright yellow t-shirts are harsh first thing in the a.m.

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