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A friend of Hoosier Access had this to write about the turnout on Election Day for a precinct located within Center Township, Marion County, Indiana.

I was in my precinct from an hour before opening until the Inspector left with my Judge to turn-in the stuff. We had 602 votes cast of 1700 on the rolls, 35.41%. Unofficially the tallies were Obama - 470, McCain - 116, Barr - 8 and write-ins - 5. Between the Special Election in March and this election, there were only 150 new registrations. If we can trust the poll book, every new voter, and there were only a few, ponied up the additional identification required. We used only three provisional ballots and they are likely to be disqualified by the Election Board for various reasons.

It appears that 10% of non-democrat voters went for other than McCain. If this held true throughout the State, we conservatives gave Indiana to Obama. I believe it would have been worse without Palin.

I made a comment to this individual asking if he thought Marion County’s 53% turnout means that we conservatives did not turn out, as liberal Democrats had every reason to turn out and they did, or is 47% of the voter rolls garbage and filled with unpurged dead voters

As to the rolls, since my precinct picked up, geographically, most of another during the 2008 reduction, and that precinct’s polling place was in the same place as mine, I had a very good idea of comparative turn-out. Considering that we now have two polling places in my location rather than the previous three, yet the geographical area is the same, this turn-out was not remarkably larger than previous Presidential elections at my polling place and did not include a lot of new voters. I am not sure if 47% of the voter roll is garbage; but, it is a larger percentage than it should be. White has not used the information available to her to purge the rolls as have other counties.

On a cheerful note, we have done well electing our Governor, and others on the State level. Marion County continues to fail.

Just found the results by township for Public Question #1

All EIGHT remaining Township Assessors in Marion County are gone.

Here’s a spreadsheet (requires Microsoft Excel) of the results by township.

Secretary of State Todd Rokita’s staff has the statewide early/absentee voting numbers posted HERE. As of today, about 366,000 early/absentee ballots are received by County Clerks and Election Boards across the State of Indiana.

Of that 36,000 (almost 10%) early votes are from Marion County alone, or about 60 votes per precinct.

UPDATE 10/30: The early vote number is now 51,094 with today’s update. We’re rapidly approaching the 100 early votes per precinct average.

As a sidenote, Secretary Rokita will be a guest this weekend, Saturday at 3 PM Eastern on Hoosier Access Live

Jim Joven is running for Circuit Court Judge in Marion County.

Just checked the George Mason University numbers for Marion County in light of the Rag report of “heavy” turnout at the two satellite voting centers on the Northside and Southside. According to the GMU reported numbers, 5000 people turned out in ONE DAY to vote early. Averaged out among all precincts we’re now at 30 votes per precinct being early in person votes.

UPDATE 10/27/2008 - With One Week before the early voting deadline and One Week and One Day remaining to Election Day, Marion County has exceeded by percentage of early votes compared to the early votes cast in the 2004 General Election. As of the 26th, Marion County has 27,078 early votes cast, or average among all 590 precincts equally that’s 46 votes per precinct.

Found an interesting website on early voting numbers. Dr. Michael McDonald, an associate professor at George Mason University, has compiled information on early voting across the nation. Some interesting stats, and he includes in person early voting numbers for Marion County (unfortunately no other Indiana county is listed)

As of the 23rd, 12,647 in person early votes were cast. This number is likely to dramatically increase as the numbers from the Northside and Southside early voting centers is added to the total and the absentee votes by mail numbers start to flow in. This is 4.3% of the total number of votes cast in 2004 for the general election of which 8% of the ballots in that election were early votes.

Keeping this number in perspective, the 12,647 number is only in-person early voting and does not count absentee by mail votes. Each precinct in Marion County averages roughly 1000 to 1500 total registered voters. So this is the equivalent of about 10 voting precincts voting at 100% turnout. Spread out among all 590 Marion County voting precincts this is about 22 early votes per precinct. In years past, many precincts received maybe 10 or less absentee votes. The GOTEV efforts by both sides in 2008 is likely to double or triple the number of early/absentee votes precincts will receive on Election Day.

Abdul over at Indiana Barrister posts a piece by Lawrence Twp Trustee Mike Hobbs (D) about the locally hot topic of township government reform. Knowing the Dems are just as interested in protecting their turf as much as some Republicans, I smelled a ‘Rat. So I sent our resident Jack Russell Terrier into the burrow and found Mr. Hobbs is only interested in privatizing one part of township government. The part that’s not under his or his political party’s control.

In the tradition of FReeper “PJComix”, author of the DummieFunnies, I’ll interject in between passages below the fold: (more…)

Seems downtown has a smelly odor wafting about the CCB, State House, the Indy Star (oh wait stenches are normal there….) and other downtown buildings.

Don’t Blame Me - I’ve not gone downtown in a while. There is NK Hurst Company downtown …  you know Beans, Beans good for your heart and all that.

(It seems DPW has traced it to a sewer problem)

Good Morning, Hoosier Access readers.

It’s no secret Matt Tully is in the tank for the Left. He’s not quite as obvious about as say, She Who Is Never Mentioned By Name Here By Me, but it’s pretty obvious. Of course with the exception of Gary Varvel the Rag is with little uncertainty a mouthpiece for the Liberal Left.

So what deserves a mention here on the favorite blog of Indiana Conservatives? This column blasting Mayor Greg Ballard.

“Mayor Greg Ballard is tired of putting his foot in his mouth” - He’s not. He’s tired of you twisting the words.

“Ballard’s administration has not been the most communicative in history.” - And you’re upset over it? Oh right he’s not playing mother-may-I and floating trial balloons in the media like the last clown that occupied the 25th Floor.

“But he’s a big boy, and if he doesn’t want to talk anymore, that’s his decision.” - Granted I don’t speak for The Colonel, but more than likely it’s not that he doesn’t want to talk. He just don’t want to talk to a bunch of moonbats at the Indianapolis Star that twist his words and take things out of context to suit an agenda. Then again this was the same Indianapolis Star that issued endorsements without talking to all of the candidates.

We just had a half hour podcast with Mayor Ballard last weekend - it’s available right here on Hoosier Access Radio. And Josh and myself will tell you we were not given a list of topics to discuss, nor did we edit any of the audio. Considering during the 2008 Marion County Slating which was also covered by Hoosier Access Radio, the Mayor stopped by the table to say hello. Josh invited the Mayor to sit down and we ended up doing an impromptu 20-30 minute interview with the Mayor. Wouldn’t that just blow chunks if you were Matt Tully and the Ryerson Rag? A bunch of bloggers having access to the Mayor and the Rag doesn’t? HA!

Let’s face it - the last person anyone - especially the Mayor of the nation’s 13th largest city - wants to talk to on a long airline flight is a political columnist who doesn’t really like his policies or stances on the issues in the first place. So what does Matt Tully do? Writes an excoriating column against the Mayor.

You’ve heard the saying - “Never pick an argument with someone who buys ink by the barrel or owns the broadcast tower”. Well we’re picking that argument with the ink folks. Frankly the age of the newspaper is fading. The blatent bias of newspapers - namely the Gannett chain - is clouding its journalistic objectivity. But what do we know we’re just a bunch of stinking bloggers. Never mind how several blogs including one now defunct blog helped spread the word the MSM never reported upon, exposing the Democrats for what they were and helping elect the Mayor into office.

If you subscribe to the Indianapolis Star, cancel your subscription. If you buy it at the corner Stop-and-Rob, save your money. No use feeding the Gannett propaganda machine any longer.

Watching the Admin & Finance committee proceedings on the City County Budget, Chairwoman Marilyn Pfiesterer (R-13th) along with Council President Bob Cockrum (R-22nd) stated their opinions the voter rolls have errors or have duplicates in the registration rolls.

Mrs. Pfiesterer stated she did a mailer to every registered voter within her Council District. She said 53% of those returned as bad address, or person moved and forwarding address expired. 53%. Over half of the registered voters - ARE NOT WHERE THE VOTER REGISTRATION SAYS THEY ARE!!!

No wonder why the illegal immigration problem is so bad - we can’t keep track of millions of illegals if we can’t even keep track of a few hundred thousand registered voters.

So someone could have a common name, such as “John Smith” - and even with photo ID go vote at multiple locations since the address doesn’t need to match the registration. Don’t get me wrong - the process of Voter ID is working. I’m just looking at a loophole that could affect a small percentage of situations. Every fraudulent vote cast [usually in favor of Democrats] cancels out a legitimate vote.

And what did the representatives of the Voter Registration Board proclaim? “Use your own party’s mailing lists rather than the registration rolls - The party lists are more accurate”

Ummm the Voter Registration rolls should be accurate too. Starting with decea….errr I should say “mortality challenged” voters.

[Crossposted to DFB]

Watching WISH-TV (on WNDY-23) report on the ribbon cutting ceremony attended by notables such as Jim Irsay, Gov. Mitch Daniels, Mayor Greg Ballard, among others - Forrest Lucas, owner of the company which holds the naming rights to Lucas Oil Stadium has posed his opposition of the pop culture shortening the name.

In an era where stadium have shortened names in local pop culture - couple of examples Jacobs Field in Cleveland was commonly known as “The Jake” granted the naming rights were later sold to Progressive Insurance, The former Candlestick Park in Pelosiland was known as “The Stick”, US Cellular Field in Chicago known as “The Cell”. Granted I still refer to it as “Comiskey” alas I digress… just NEVER EVER sell the naming rights to Wrigley Field.

Back to the jist of this post - Forrest Lucas objects to the name “The Luke” because his company was involved in a legal tussle with Russian oil company Lukoil because that company’s name and his company Lucas Oil Products are too similar.

So in respecting Mr. Lucas’ wishes in not referring to the stadium by a name similar to his business competition, what will people shorten Lucas Oil Stadium to? (More Below The Fold)

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 Greg Ballard [8:03m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

You can find the agenda posted HERE. A live feed of the Council Proceedings is posted HERE.

I’m not going to try to give a live transcript of the speech, but Hoosier Access Radio will have a podcast of the speech posted soon.

18:53 - A who’s who of City government is present. None of which were “forced” to be here unlike 2007. Several GOP councilors are in the Council Chamber.

19:03 - Prayer and Pledge given by Mary Moriarity Adams, the voting machine is broken. President Cockrum announces votes will be given by show of hands.

19:05 - Introduction of Guests. Mayor Greg Ballard is introduced by Councilor Bob Lutz

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