First Report From the Field
Reports from the field indicate a low turnout due to the weather. This may cause a surge of voting if a clearing in the storm appears.
posted by Indiana Pundit at 7:23 AM
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3 Comments:
I was in and out the door of my precinct in less than 10 minutes. Although the ease and speed of the voting process was great for me, it was also nauseating because the fact that there were only two folks ahead of me in line meant that we are looking at low turnout.
It actually made me wonder if Indiana could benefit from a ballot-initiative type system like Ohio? Bond issues, taxes, proposals of all shapes and sizes that make it through the legislature, yet still need ratified by the voting public. All sorts of issues come up, and the issues tend to be what drag people to the polls. Direct, democratic voting made for HUGE turnouts in many precincts who were directly effected by the pending legislation.
I guess I'm just used to standing in line, and today I didn't have to.
Some insight from inside a political organization:
The number of actual voters in any given area is suprisingly slim.
For example- in the 80th District there are 28,689 registered voters. I will predict that the TOTAL votes cast for the 80th District race today (GiaQuinta, Paddock, and Howell) will be fewer than 2000.
What a wonderful world we would live in if people would actually GET involved.
Kevin Knuth -
Why don't you get working on that. It would help if you recruited more primary candidates to fill the ballot positions.
Oh, and what about that glaring hole at the top of the ticket? That'll really get the Dems motivated to get out and vote next November.
One other thing - did Pat Love pass the test yet?
The Allen County Assessor is responsible for the accurate assessment of billions of dollars of property. Do you know of any business responsible for billions of accurate who would hire someone who can't pass an assessing test?
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