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RandySF

(70,614 posts) Wed Oct 9, 2024, 04:48 AM Oct 9

Big turnout for the first day of early voting in Marion County

INDIANAPOLIS — Early voting started Tuesday in Indiana. In Marion County, that meant a busy day at the City-County Building downtown.

The doors opened at 8 a.m. and — by 4:30 p.m. — the Marion County Clerk said 1,250 people cast their ballot on day one of early voting in Indiana.

“This is the ultimate election, a general election in a Presidential year,” Marion County Clerk Kate Sweeney Bell said.

“I talked to voters today who had never voted before. A man in his 50’s came with this father in his 70’s, and it was important enough for them to come and their opinion,” she added.

Election officials expect the trend of long lines to continue with each day getting busier, as Election Day, Nov. 5 gets closer. In Marion County, the City-County Building will be the site for early voting right up until Election Day, but it won’t be the only early voting site.

https://www.wthr.com/article/news/politics/elections/decision-2024/more-than-1200-voters-turn-out-in-marion-county-to-cast-ballot-on-first-day-of-early-voting-indianapolis/531-163ff239-a742-4d06-b0d0-cd26158add3a

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They gerrymandered Marion county into its own district removing the blue influence of it from other districts Cheezoholic Oct 22 #1

Cheezoholic

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1. They gerrymandered Marion county into its own district removing the blue influence of it from other districts

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Tue Oct 22, 2024, 03:26 PM

Oct 22

Marion county is usually the bluest part of this ruby red state so they isolated it. The northern part of it used to be part of my district, 5th, and while that district still votes predominantly red there were some healthy challenges, even to Dan Burton, in the past. Now almost half of the 5th districts voters are concentrated in very red very wealthy Hamilton county, home to the infamous Moms for Liberty Hitler flyer, so we're fucked. There is no way those assholes in that county will ever even look at a Democrat and they have a completely unfair hold on the entire district. It's this way now all over this state as we are one of the most gerrymandered in the country. It really sucks what gerrymandering can do to an electorate and we must stop it.

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