Sen. Lugar: Marion County Election Board declares senator & wife ineligible to vote in home precinct

[kpete]

Source: Indy Star

Sen. Lugar: Marion County Election Board declares senator and wife ineligible to vote in home precinct

UPDATE: The Election Board has voted 2-1 along party lines to find Sen. Richard Lugar, a Republican, and his wife ineligible to vote in their former home precinct. The two Democrats found that the Lugars abandoned that residence and no longer reside there. However, according to Election Board attorneys, there may be an easy fix — the Lugars could submit new voter registrations that are based on a physical address in the county with which they currently have a connection. That could be a family member’s home or, possibly, the Lugar family farm. There is no house on that farm but it might satisfy the requirement.

The GOP board member, Patrick J. Dietrick, said after today’s vote that the other members “utterly failed to consider the circumstances of this alleged violation of election law.” Today Clerk Beth White’s motion said there was no evidence that the Lugars knowingly violated residency requirements in voting previously in their Wayne Township prescient.

Read more: http://blogs.indystar.com/politics/2012/03/15/sen-lugar-marion-county-election-board-to-consider-motion-to-declare-lugars-ineligible-to-vote/

[Ian David]

1. Why is it only Republicans commit voter fraud? n/t

[freshwest]

2. What's next, recall him and try to undo all his votes? Jail for his kids for going to school in the

Wrong district? Charges of avoiding paying taxes?

Didn't Sanctorum do the same thing? And haven't they sent some homeless parents to jail for it?

The crazy never stops with the baggers.

[SDjack]

3. Apparently the Lugars are so stupid that they don't know their home precinct. n/t

[midnight]

4. Sen. Richard Lugar and his wife, sold the home address he is claiming, three decades ago....

"Sen. Richard Lugar and his wife, Charlene, are ineligible to vote in Marion County because they have not lived at the home address on their registration for more than three decades. They sold it, purchased a home in the D.C. suburbs of Virginia and have lived there since Lugar took office."

[Mojorabbit]

5. Then he ought not to be voting in that district until he as an address there. nt

[drm604]

6. So you can vote anywhere where you have a "connection" to a physical address?

Are they sure that they want to set that precedent?

[marble falls]

7. Didn't they have their state issued ID with them?

You know, the one with their address on it?