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Hugabear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 12:04 PM
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Has anyone challenged any of these rethug "Operation Chaos" assholes in Indiana?
From what I understand, in Indiana you're allowed to challenge a particular voter if you believe they are voting illegally. I found this little tidbit while browsing around:

In any Primary election in INDIANA, voters state which Party they are affiliated with by asking the poll workers for the ballot of that Party in a given Primary. A voter's party affiliation is determined solely by his or her Primary voting record; the state's voter registration form does NOT provide a place for the voter to state Party affiliation.

Even though the history of a voter's Party affiliation- solely as determined by the individual voter's Primary voting record- is part of the public record, the informaton is NOT available at the polling place. Any voter, however, may challenge another voter's Party affiliation at the polls:

In such a case, the voter making the challenge (the "challenger") fills out an affidavit that the voter being challenged (the "challengee") has not, in fact, voted in the Party's Primaries in the past, an assertion against which the challengee must fill out a counter-affidavit, asserting that they intend to vote for a majority of the candidates of the challengee's Party of choice in the next General Election. If the challengee fills out this counter-affidavit, the challengee is allowed to vote in the Primary; however, if the challengee refuses, he or she is not allowed to vote in the Primary.

Nevertheless, since General Election ballots are cast in secret, the intention expressed in the counter-affidavit by the challengee is impossible to enforce.


http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P08/IN-D.phtml
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 12:29 PM
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1. "Operation Chaos" that was what I was looking for and rethugs
...are implementing these programs in open primary states as deliberate sabotage of the primary selection process
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WillYourVoteBCounted Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 12:31 PM
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2. Indiana is a voter ID state and has a republican SOS
so you can't sqeeze alot of lemonaide out of that lemon.

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Hugabear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 12:54 PM
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3. Supposedly there have been a lot of rethugs switching parties to vote
Of course, they're committing fraud when they swear to vote Democratic in the General Election.
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faithfulcitizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 01:00 PM
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4. We don't register in Indiana, just check a box & get an R or D ballot at the polling site.
No one here believes they are committing fraud when they ask for the other party's ballot, just a simple decision about which primary you want to vote in. Since there aren't any huge repub contests today, I'd say MOST repubs are voting in the dem primary today. I feel sick to my stomach about it...
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