News From Terre Haute, Indiana

Local & Bistate

Discussion

Welcome to our online comments feature. We welcome your thoughts and your opinions, including unpopular ones. We ask only that you keep the conversation civil and clean. We reserve the right to remove comments that are obscene, racist or abusive and statements that are false or unverifiable as well as posts that are attacking other users. Repeat offenders will be blocked. You may flag objectionable comments for review by a moderator.
comments powered by Disqus
April 16, 2008

County takes election to ISU

Students will be able to vote on campus for two weeks

By Howard Greninger

TERRE HAUTE — A temporary satellite voting site will be placed on the campus of Indiana State University by next week under an agreement with the university.

The site will be at ISU’s Cunningham Memorial Library and will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. The voting site will be open only for two weeks, from Monday to April 25 and April 28 to May 2.

The Vigo County Election Board on Wednesday passed a resolution to approve the site for ISU’s campus.

“They have graduation on May 3, so it has to be done quickly,” said County Clerk Patricia Mansard. ISU administers final exams from April 28 to May 2.

“We are trying to do it with very little, if any, cost to the county,” Mansard said.

“It will help these young people who have registered to start voting. One of the things that we know is that if people don’t start voting when they are young, they may never vote. It is a habit that people get into, so we are trying to do all we can to encourage them and seems to be real interest at [ISU],” Mansard said.

Vigo County has three other satellite voting sites — at The Meadows, Plaza North Shopping Center and Southland Shopping Center. Voters can cast an early absentee ballot at each of these sites until noon May 5.

ISU rests in voting precinct 5C, which has 1,091 voters, with 59 additional voters “pending,” meaning they are to be processed into the Statewide Voter Registration System, an electronic database that simultaneously links all of Indiana’s 92 county's voter registration records.

Debbie Kirk, director of the Vigo County Voter Registration office, said the 59 voters will be eligible to vote, possibly today. Kirk said several hundred voters in 5C were removed from voting rolls, with many more than that added back into the precinct from recent presidential get-out-the-vote efforts. About 100 of those voters are registered at Deming Center, which also is in 5C precinct, she said.

Many of the new voter registration records, obtained as part of a concert ticket giveaway to see Dave Matthews perform in Bloomington, contained fictitious names and addresses and had to be removed, Kirk said

Vigo County now has 76,249 registered voters, plus an additional 1,422 pending to the Statewide Voter Registration System. Kirk said she does not know how many of those voter registrations are new or are simply transfers from other addresses.

Still, the numbers are up from 75,784 registered voters counted as of late March, Kirk said.

Statewide, more than 4.2 million voters were registered in Indiana as of April 10, the Indiana Secretary of State’s office reports.

More than 52,000 applications still were pending. Since the 2006 general election, 332,679 Hoosiers have added their names to the voter registration rolls, including more than 150,000 since the start of this year, according to the Secretary of State’s office.

The state’s new registration system has allowed the removal or inactivation of about 600,000 records from voter rolls in the state’s 92 counties, which would otherwise lead to inaccurate voter participation results.

Howard Greninger can be reached at (812) 231-4204 or howard.greninger@tribstar.com

Text Only | Photo Reprints
Local & Bistate
Multimedia

Like us on Facebook!
Community Calendar
Loading…
Events by eviesays.com
TribStar.com Poll
Join the Conversation
Helium
Front page
AP Video
Raw Video: Greek Rioting Ahead of Austerity Vote Greece Passes New Austerity Deal Amid Rioting Coroner: Houston Autopsy Results Weeks Away Pop Music Superstar Whitney Houston Dies at 48 Raw Video: Child Rescued After Kosovo Avalanche Raw Video: Whitney Houston's Last Performance Reaction to Houston's Death at Clive Davis Party Whitney Houston's Church Mourns Her Passing Severe Cold Wreaks Havoc in China Police: Houston Found Dead in Her Hotel Room Fans 'Speechless' Over Houston's Death Fuel Removal Under Way on Capsized Italian Ship Snow Strands Italian Towns 79 Turtles Seized at Shanghai Airport Video of M.I.A's Obscene Halftime Gesture Paul Suffers Narrow Loss to Romney in Maine Raw Video: Italy's Mount Etna Bursts Into Life Recording Superstar Whitney Houston Dead at 48 Today in History for Tuesday, February 12th Stocks Fall Sharply As Greek Deal Is Held Up
NDN Video
'Rumor Has It' Adele's Rolling in the Grammys Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson after the Pebble Beach Pro Am-2/12 Exclusive Video: Bobbi Kristina Leaving Hospital Raw Video: Greek Rioting Ahead of Austerity Vote 2012 Grammys: Rihanna Raw Video: Aurora Borealis As Seen From Space 2012 Grammys: Taylor Swift Raw Video: Child Rescued After Kosovo Avalanche Exclusive Video - Whitney's Bodybag FUEL TV: Punk Payback Gym tips Whitney's Final Days - EXCLUSIVE Romney Tops Santorum in CPAC Straw Poll First glimpse of Blue Ivy Carter Angry Dad Shoots Teens Laptop Peek inside Barbie's closet Absolute Lin-sanity Madonna's Daughter Shaves Head 5 Killed in Wrong-way Crash on I-10 in La. Test on Comforter in Powell Unit Shows Blood Hero Driver Saves Kids From Burning Bus
Parade
Magazine
Click HERE to read all your Parade favorites including Hollywood Wire, Celebrity interviews and photo galleries, Food recipes and cooking tips, Games and lots more.
  • -

    March 12, 2010

activity
Real Estate News