Ang kamakailang Indiana Civic Health Index ay dapat na isang wakeup call para sa mga nahalal na opisyal ng Indiana, tulad ng alarma ng mga medikal na device na nagpapaalerto sa mga doktor at nars sa isang pasyente na nangangailangan ng agarang pangangalaga. Kung hindi mo pa nabasa ang ulat, hayaan akong tumawag ng malinaw sa mga alarma. Indiana:  

* niraranggo ang ika-50 sa pagboto sa 2022 na halalan  
* ay patuloy na niraranggo sa ibabang 10 sa pagboto sa huling 13 taon 
* umatras sa mga ranggo para sa parehong paglahok sa pagboto at pagpaparehistro ng botante sa huling 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.

Today, Common Cause Indiana filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a state law that strips voters of their right to petition state courts to extend polling-place hours. Common Cause Indiana v. Lawson was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. Common Cause Indiana is being represented in the case by Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, the law firm of Eimer Stahl LLP and the national Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

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.