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Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Braun’s bid to become governor of Indiana seemed fairly straightforward until he got the running mate he didn’t want: a pastor and self-proclaimed Christian nationalist who finessed his way onto next month’s ballot.
The request comes after a federal appeals court unanimously upheld a federal judge’s order restoring the registrations of those 1,600 voters, whom the judge said were illegally purged from the rolls under an executive order by the state’s Republican governor.
Democrat Jennifer McCormick tied Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Braun to the ultraconservative views of his running mate, Micah Beckwith, a self-proclaimed Christian nationalist.
Indiana Secretary of State Diego Morales said Wednesday there is strong early voter turnout across the state — with more than half a million Hoosiers already casting their ballots.
The complaint accuses Indiana Secretary of State Diego Morales of using his position for self-promotion by distributing election materials with Morales’ name printed larger than the name of his office.
The Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that Butler County’s Republican-majority election board must count provisional ballots that were cast by two voters after they learned their mail-in ballots were voided because they arrived without mandatory secrecy envelopes.
The nation’s highest court has a lower profile than it did in the past two presidential campaigns despite an early summer ruling on presidential immunity.
The Georgia Supreme Court unanimously declined the request for expedited handling, which means it will likely take months before there’s a ruling on the case as a whole.
Some liberal abortion-rights activists want to cast the Republican-appointed justices as conservative extremists who walk in lockstep with the GOP-controlled Legislature. But that couldn’t be further from the truth.
IndyBar is urging the retention of all eighteen Marion Superior Court judges on the November ballot.
Nebraska’s top election official had no authority to strip voting rights from people convicted of a felony, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in a decision that could add hundreds of new voters to the rolls and potentially help tip the balance on Nov. 5.
Still, the campaign for Democrat Destiny Wells expressed excitement about its fundraising totals for the period from July through September in the race for Indiana attorney general.
A handful of competitive races could change who represents Indianapolis metropolitan residents at the Indiana Statehouse.
The fiery 20-minute debate between incumbent Republican Todd Rokita and Democrat Destiny Wells also focused on the role of the Attorney General’s Office.
U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross rejected arguments that the state should reopen registration through next Monday. The registration deadline was last Monday, and she ruled from the bench Thursday afternoon that there would be no extension.
On Sept. 17, 2024, the annual Voter Registration Drive was sponsored by the Marion County Bar Association.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jennifer McCormick’s campaign team called for Republican opponent Mike Braun to immediately pull the ad, saying it “violates the principles of transparency and integrity voters deserve in campaign advertising by changing the text on the signs in voters’ hands.”
A trial is set to begin Tuesday before Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney on a legal challenge that Democrats filed arguing that the two new certification rules could be used “to upend the statutorily required process for certifying election results in Georgia.”
Before voters even begin casting ballots, Democrats and Republicans are engaged in a sprawling legal fight over how the 2024 election will be run, a series of court disputes that could even run past Election Day if the outcome is close.