The IndyStar has the details.

The Indiana Court of Appeals today struck down the Indiana Voter ID law citing the disparity between absentee by mail voters who do not need to show ID and in person voters voting early or in person voters at the precinct. Also cited was the exemption of persons in a residential institution where there is a precinct located there (i.e. retirement homes or nursing homes).

More details as they come to light. There is a referendum coming in November in Marion County, and as of now it is unsure if the voter ID law will be in effect for it.

I just know this post will cause some ulcers, but I was struck with a though when catching up on Indianapolis news this morning.   Here are the posts that started me off:   Rokita’s Rather Ridiculous Redistricting Proposal and Rethinking Redistricting the website produced by Secretary of State Rokita.

After a cursory overview, I have to say in general I agree with Todd’s suggestions.   I might have favored private money being used in the research and marketing, as the Kernan Shephard folks did.   I would find the “illegalality” of thinking about politics to be too strong, since last I checked we are all still granted the right to think.

But all in all, each Indiana Senate seat should feature two House seats in the same geographic bounds.  All in all, population should be the guide and not voter vault.  All in all, the existing county lines are a much better boundary than gerrymandered messes to give one side or the other a couple extra votes.

Sorry Scott, I felt your article didn’t give the proposal its fair shake.  Perhaps a problem with Todd, or his possible run for Governor?  This effort on the surface looks surprisingly like a Daniels move, bringing the best of common sense and transparency and putting it on the table.    To be frank, I’m still for Becky as Governor, if she wants it … but this kind of forward thinking on Todd’s part shows he’s just the man for Lugar’s Senate seat we need, if only that resignation were forthcoming.

Saw this on Election Journal:

Found: 2000 people registered in Indiana and Florida from one county

November 2, 2008 by Soren

The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette compared the Allen County, Indiana voter file to the Florida voter file and found 2,000 probable overlaps with the same name and birthday:

The Journal Gazette compared the list of 222,000 active registered voters in Allen County with the list of more than 12 million registered voters in Florida and found that 2,172 registrations have the same first and last names, middle names or initials and the same birth dates and are listed as active, eligible voters in both places.

This could be very significant. Both Florida and Indiana are close states, and Allen County contains a significant portion of the votes in IN-03, where Congressman Mark Souder is in a close re-election race.

How many more of these are there? How many have voted?

Recall that when the Indiana voter-ID law went to Supreme Court, one of the plaintiffs was Faye Buis-Ewing, who was registered in both Indiana and Florida and was fraudulently claiming homestead tax exemptions in both states.

(Video promoted from the comments)

CNN spent some serious time in Lake County reviewing phony registrations.  How ACORN is still allowed to register voters, considering they are under Federal investigation in several states, is beyond me.

After watching the video, check out the RNC’s Obama Acorn Tree.

Barack Obama’s buddies from ACORN are caught filing bogus voter registrations in Lake County.

ACORN is the organization that Obama worked for when he was a “community organizer”. They’re a bunch of frickin communists.

They’re pushing hard to register as many bogus voters as possible. Then, on election day, Obama operatives will go to our satellite voting centers and vote under the bogus registrations.

Hopefully, Indiana’s voter ID law can keep these people from actually voting. But seeing as these centers are run by Democrats, who knows if the IDs will even be checked.

With allegations spreading of ACORN’s apparent attempts at voter fraud around the country and with 105 percent of Indianapolis registered to vote (uh…105 percent? Something ain’t right there) Indiana’s top election official, Secretary of State, Todd Rokita, issued the following statement:

Secretary Rokita Calls for Election Officials to Remain Committed to Ensuring Election Integrity by Utilizing Available Methods of Verifying Voter Registrations

Indianapolis, IN (October 9, 2008) – Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita issued the following statement today regarding the use of Social Security Numbers as an appropriate and viable way to verify voter registration forms in Indiana:

“Giving Indiana voters and taxpayers the chance to participate in the fairest and most accurate election possible is my number one priority as chief election officer. I’m being made aware of instances of voter registration fraud by ACORN and others, from all corners of the state and across the country. I take these very seriously.

(Read more after the leap)

This last week the issue of voter fraud has been percolating to the surface, initially in Ohio and now it seems quite a bit right here in Indiana. Gateway Pundit reported gross problems in Indianapolis with 105% of voters registered:

His ACORN buddies sure are doing marvelous work.
Say Anything has tally sheet.

And, still more good news for Obama… Fannie Mae funneled almost $1 million to ACORN fraud!

If you want even more, read the comments, it seems that the Obama campaign also mis-used or even stole a mailing list for some of their marketing here in Indiana. I have been wondering why today, I think I even twittered that, why Indiana? If he’s got Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Virginia all sewn up, why cheat here in Indiana?

1. Could it be that he doesn’t have any of those states, and can’t be sure the media will keep misreporting the polls?
2. Are his Chicago fraud squads chomping at the bit to mess with something, and Indiana was the closest?