OK, I'm not sure if anyone else cares, but we have ourselves a weird situation up here.
While the rest of the state celebrates (or bemoans) Mike Braun's win, not a single vote from Porter County for ANY race has been tallied yet. Not federal, not state, not local.
[h=1]UPDATE: Porter County election results not expected until at least Thursday; voters planning protest Wednesday afternoon[/h]
https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local...6efdfd562.html#tracking-source=home-top-story
It all started with a change of oversight of the election. It was shifted from the county voter registration office to the Porter County Election Board, a move allowed by state law. As the County Election Board is controlled by Republicans, the Democrats argues against this and it has been a broo-ha-ha.
So Yesterday, several polling places opened late. Sounds like basic ineptitude to me, by who, I don't know.
This resulted in a run to Judge Bradford (good guy) for a court order that these polling places stay open later. Makes sense to me.
However, apparently the early voting and absentee ballots were supposed to be delivered to the polling places to be counted at some point yesterday. I am unclear on when it was supposed to happen, but the Democrats were claiming that it happened late, or not at all while the polls were open. They ran to Judge Jent (no comment) for a court order that all the early voting and absentee ballots be counted before releasing any results, which, I guess, is not the way it is usually done. Combine this and a dozen polling places being open late and it ended up that all the ballots were locked away overnight with no counting getting underway until today.
If I had to guess, I'd say that the County Election Board did not exercise the organization and oversight it should have, but that there are also forces who were determined to make sure this process DID NOT go smoothly because the last thing they wanted was this change in oversight in the election to go well.
I have no reason to think the votes themselves are being tampered with, but every reason to think that there are those who are quite pleased with the chaos.
While the rest of the state celebrates (or bemoans) Mike Braun's win, not a single vote from Porter County for ANY race has been tallied yet. Not federal, not state, not local.
[h=1]UPDATE: Porter County election results not expected until at least Thursday; voters planning protest Wednesday afternoon[/h]
https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local...6efdfd562.html#tracking-source=home-top-story
It all started with a change of oversight of the election. It was shifted from the county voter registration office to the Porter County Election Board, a move allowed by state law. As the County Election Board is controlled by Republicans, the Democrats argues against this and it has been a broo-ha-ha.
So Yesterday, several polling places opened late. Sounds like basic ineptitude to me, by who, I don't know.
This resulted in a run to Judge Bradford (good guy) for a court order that these polling places stay open later. Makes sense to me.
However, apparently the early voting and absentee ballots were supposed to be delivered to the polling places to be counted at some point yesterday. I am unclear on when it was supposed to happen, but the Democrats were claiming that it happened late, or not at all while the polls were open. They ran to Judge Jent (no comment) for a court order that all the early voting and absentee ballots be counted before releasing any results, which, I guess, is not the way it is usually done. Combine this and a dozen polling places being open late and it ended up that all the ballots were locked away overnight with no counting getting underway until today.
If I had to guess, I'd say that the County Election Board did not exercise the organization and oversight it should have, but that there are also forces who were determined to make sure this process DID NOT go smoothly because the last thing they wanted was this change in oversight in the election to go well.
I have no reason to think the votes themselves are being tampered with, but every reason to think that there are those who are quite pleased with the chaos.