Indiana's GOP Secretary of State Removed By Court For Falsifying Candidate Papers

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Indiana's GOP Secretary of State Removed By Court For Falsifying Candidate Papers
The state's top election official used an address where he was not a legal resident.


Charlie White, Indiana's Republican Secretary of State, has been removed from office by an Indiana Court that ruled White falsified his address when registering as a candidate for the constitutional post overseeing Indiana elections.

"His change of registration for purposes of voting was timely. For purposes of being a candidate, however, his change of registration was not timely," wrote Louise Rosenberg, Marion County Circuit Court Judge in her December 21st decision. "The fact that Mr. White knowingly registered in the wrong precinct is sufficient to render him ineligible for the office of Secretary of State."

The court set aside the results of a 2010 recount by another state commission and ordered the candidate with the second-highest votes, Democrat Vop Osili, an architect and chair of the Indianapolis Board of Zoning Appeals, seated. The court also did not dismiss separate voter fraud charges against White.

The case was brought by Indiana's Democratic Party, which has not exactly had a winning streak when it comes to election cases. Indiana has some of the toughest voter ID laws in the country, as a result of Republican activists claiming that floods of people (Democrats, of course) were falsifying voter registration forms in order to vote more than once. The voter ID law was upheld by the Supreme Court, mostly because lawyers challenging it sued before it took effect. ..............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/752457/indiana%27s_gop_secretary_of_state_removed_by_court_for_falsifying_candidate_papers/

[One Voice]

1. YES he was!

And the man I voted for WINS. HAAAA
I'm so excited, lol.
Damn, don't know how to find the smilies now. heh.

[Angry Dragon]

3. Here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/emoticons/

Have to type them with colons

[One Voice]

4. Thank you!

[Angry Dragon]

5. Don't use them all at once ........ you might run out

[JNelson6563]

2. This is awesome!

[LiberalFighter]

6. It should also have the following effect at polling places

Indiana law provides that there be an Inspector, 2 Judges (one from each party) and 2 Clerks (one from each party).

The Inspector is held by a Democrat or Republican based on the results of the last Secretary of State election results using the results of that election in the county. Prior to this election about 33 counties had Democratic Inspectors and the remaining 59 counties or so had Republican Inspectors. This also determines the ballot order in the General Election under the same criteria.

With this ruling that White was not eligible it should also mean that all votes were wiped out for that office as they were not eligible votes. And that all 92 counties should have Democratic Inspectors.

Another consideration is that since the Republican Party failed to muster at least 10% of the votes for SoS they lose their majority party status and need to follow different laws. A political party must have at least 10% of the votes for SoS in order to include election of precinct committeemen on the ballot. Only major parties can appoint workers to an election board at each polling place.

Indiana code specifies that a "Major political party" is when either of the two (2) parties whose nominees received the highest and second highest numbers of votes statewide for secretary of state in the last election

This may decertify the Republican Party as a major party in Indiana.

[BlueToTheBone]

8. What a fabulous idea!

I hope it catches on in the courts!

[One Voice]

7. Happy kick