Indiana judge to rule today - satellite voting centers

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http://www.howeypolitics.com/2008/10/22/oct-22-2008-hpi-daily-wire/

ANGRY CROWDS AT LAKE VOTE CENTER: Large numbers of people lining the hallways of the Gary courthouse wishing to vote early in the general election protested Tuesday when election workers attempted to close office doors at 4 p.m. (Times of Northwest Indiana) Lauren Smith, a spokeswoman for the Indiana Democratic Party, said Republican officials were unfairly turning back voters. Nicholas Gasparovic, assistant county elections board director and the board’s ranking Republican, said he was preparing to call police to quell the angry crowd who, he said, was violating the normal rules of closing the polls. The dispute was the latest controversy over early in-person voting, which brought out scores of people to the Gary office Tuesday, Gasparovic said. The GOP has been trying to curtail satellite voting centers outside of Crown Point, claiming they violate state election laws that require bipartisan support. They claim multiple centers risk voter fraud. Democrats claim state law allows early voting in county clerk’s branch offices in Gary, Hammond and East Chicago, and they provide equal access to early voting to minorities, many of whom have neither the time nor transportation to reach the Crown Point voting center. A spokeswoman for the Indiana Supreme Court said Lake Superior Court Judge Diane Kavadias-Schneider hadn’t issued a ruling late Tuesday afternoon but is expected to do so today.