(Indiana) Judge sides with Democrats in ballot dispute

[hippiechick]

Here's a little good news, anyway ...

http://www.indystar.com/print/articles/2/081529-9692-092.html

"Democrats won nearly every provision of their lawsuit over Marion County’s controversial election ballot today — a decision that will force county officials to redesign and print an entirely new voting card in 27 days.

Senior Judge James Harris ruled that for the Nov. 4 general election, candidates must be grouped by party rather than by office — the opposite of a ballot design that had been proposed and used in previous elections. The court also struck down a new Republican Party symbol that carried the words “The A Team” as part of the logo.

For absentee voters, the court will allow the “office-block” ballots to be used, so long as the “A Team” symbol is removed and extra space is added between the names of City-County Council at-large candidates. But for the nearly 600,000 regular ballots that must be printed, the judge said that the ballot card must comply “substantially with a party-column format.”

That’s exactly the format Democrats asked for in the suit. "

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[CheshireCat]

1. One small victory for Democracy

This is great! Each small victory is vitally important if the 2004 election is to be fair.

[Jokerman]

2. A ray of common sense.

I was hoping that this blatant attempt to skew the ballot would be thrown out. At least in Marion County we use a new voting machine that keeps a paper copy of the vote so the count can be verified.

[goforit]

3. Terrific!!!....Arnold is no one to fret about. He'll have his due!

Go INDIANA!!!!

A Change will come!!

[BraveDave]

4. If more people...

...voted for the best candidate for any given position instead of a partisian vote, none of it would matter would it?

[newyawker99]

5. Hi BraveDave!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[BraveDave]

6. Heh...

Small world indeed newyawk.
B-)
part 1 or part 2?
heh...