There is no reason to suddenly block use of student IDs from public colleges and universities that meet requirements in current law. They have been accepted for decades and now Republicans have a problem with them — without a single example of misdeeds offered up.
Several major Indiana election reforms advanced by the Senate Elections Committee this session either failed to get approval by the full Senate or were significantly scaled back.
Senate bills that would have established closed primaries in Indiana and reduced the number of early voting days died on the Senate floor this week.
Here comes a series of bills filed by members of the Republican majority which has a significant negative impact on elections and local government.
Indiana lawmakers are on break this week, having made it to the halfway point of the legislative session. Why it matters: The path to crossover — the midway point when House bills head to the Senate and vice versa — is littered with dead bills.
Three months after being sworn in, Evansville’s 4th Ward City Council member Tanisha Carothers is facing a fraud charge. Court records say Carothers is facing one
Two measures that likely would have reduced Indiana's nearly worst-in-the-nation voter turnout did not advance at the Senate, and likely are dead for the year.
Republican senators killed two flashy election proposals and significantly scaled back a third after letting the trio languish on the chamber’s daily calendar for more than two weeks.
"This idea came to me from a group of voters who would like to see a little more transparency for this part of the voting process," said state Sen. Dan
The SAVE act, introduced last July, seems at a glance like a move to prevent election tampering. However, I urge you to read for yourself the fine print of this bill, HR 8281. All photo IDs we present at the voting booth would need to include our birthplaces,
Senate Bill 201 would have closed primary elections in Indiana to allow only people affiliated with a specific party to vote in that party’s primary election. Senate Bill 284 would have shrunk ...