The recent Indiana Civic Health Index should be a wakeup call for Indiana elected officials, like the alarm of medical devices alerting doctors and nurses to a patient in need of urgent care.   If you haven’t read the report, let me call out the alarms clearly. Indiana:  

* ranked 50th in voting in the 2022 elections  
* has consistently ranked in the bottom 10 in voting for the last 13 years 
* moved backward in the rankings for both voting participation and voter registration in the last 11 plus...

Seventeen days. That’s all the time and consideration the General Assembly gave to this year’s redistricting process. Not only was this year’s rushed process highly partisan, it was done almost entirely behind closed doors with little input from the voters.

Hoosiers deserve better.

When it comes to process, transparency, and public participation, this year’s redistricting process made clear that it’s time to give serious consideration to a citizens redistricting commission in 2022.

Aujourd'hui, Common Cause Indiana a déposé une plainte fédérale contestant la constitutionnalité d'une loi d'État qui prive les électeurs de leur droit de demander aux tribunaux d'État de prolonger les heures d'ouverture des bureaux de vote. L'affaire Common Cause Indiana v. Lawson a été déposée devant le tribunal de district américain du district sud de l'Indiana. Common Cause Indiana est représentée dans cette affaire par le Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, le cabinet d'avocats Eimer Stahl LLP et le Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, un organisme national.

Today, Common Cause Indiana and several registered voters in Saint Joseph County – Mary Frederick, John Justin Collier, William Marks Jr., and Minnie Lee Clark – filed suit against Secretary of State Connie Lawson and members of the St. Joseph County Election Board for rejecting outright their absentee ballots with purported signature mismatches in violation of their due process and equal protection rights under the federal constitution.