Court accepts GOP choice for House District 46 race (Indiana)

[Briarius]

The Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that incumbent R. Brooks LaPlante should be the Republican on the ballot in House District 46, which includes Terre Haute.
http://www.indystar.com/articles/0/189746-6550-009.html

A little more in the Terre Haute paper:

The Indiana Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld a Marion County Court ruling that put incumbent Rep. Brooks LaPlante on the ballot. But it stayed the lower court's ruling that would have forced local election boards to notify voters who already have sent absentee votes that they will need to submit a replacement ballot if they want their vote in the District 46 race to count.

That stay is pending further ruling from the Court of Appeals.

Votes in other races on those ballots will be counted whether a replacement is submitted or not. The Court of Appeals also left the cost for any additional ballots with the four counties involved: Clay, Monroe, Owen and Vigo.
http://www.tribstar.com/articles/2004/10/27/news/news01.txt

Good news is that it looks like for now they are only throwing out the District 46 section of the ballot, so those of us who voted absentee still get counted in the Kerry column!

[democraticinsurgent]

1. this is a smelly situation and the R's have totally screwed it up

see http://www.howeypolitics.com for some great commentary on this race. We're gonna take this seat back.

thanks for posting this!

[Briarius]

2. Kick for the evening indiana ppl n/t