Indiana's own James Comey situation might prevent African Americans from voting
On October 4, Indiana state police raided the headquarters of the Indiana Voter Registration Project, a group that was registering tens of thousands of African Americans to vote. Claiming evidence of fraud and forgery, the police shut down the group's work a week before the state's registration deadline. The raid and ongoing investigation have cast a shadow over the state's elections, police, and top Republican officials—and control of the US Senate could hang in the balance.
Indiana is not a swing state in the presidential election, but the close Senate contest between Republican Todd Young and Democrat Evan Bayh could determine which party controls the Senate for the next two years. The state is also in the midst of a pitched battle for the governor's seat, which is being vacated by Donald Trump's running mate, Mike Pence. The importance of these races has intensified questions about the conduct of the state's election authorities and police. Why, critics ask, is the state launching an investigation weeks before a major election, without sharing proof that fraud has taken place?
"We don't want people raising these claims right before elections," says Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, an election law expert at Indiana University Bloomington Maurer School of Law. "Unless you have hard evidence."
To Fuentes-Rohwer, the situation in Indiana is alarmingly similar to the controversy surrounding the FBI's involvement in the presidential election. Last Friday, FBI director James Comey announced new evidence in the probe into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server, less than two weeks before the election and without any information about that evidence or proof of wrongdoing. The Trump campaign is now running an attack ad based on Comey's announcement.
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