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

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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/