[EL] US Dist Court strikes down limited voting in Indiana
JBoppjr at aol.com
JBoppjr at aol.com
Mon Oct 13 05:08:40 PDT 2014
I agree with Bill on this and have long thought this system was
unconstitutional.
For many years, Marion County had a Republican majority. That is slowly
changing as Republican voters move to the "donut" counties. Most agree that
the Democrats now have a majority of the voters, with rare exceptions (The
Mayor of Indianapolis, which is coterminous with Marion County, is now a
Republican). So the Democrats are most likely to benefit from this ruling.
However, people should not look at this from a partisan perspective. While
the court did not base its decision on the rights of political parties, s
ince no political party sued, I just don't see how a system can be upheld
that prevents political parties from nominating candidates for all the public
offices to be elected. Jim Bopp
In a message dated 10/12/2014 1:49:14 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
wgroth at fdgtlaborlaw.com writes:
The voting in judicial elections in Marion County is indeed “limited,” so
limited in fact that there are 16 candidates nominated (8 by each
political party) to fill 16 vacancies, a limitation so unreasonable that it
convinced the federal judge these strictures violated the voters’ right to cast a
meaningful ballot. I don’t think this comports with anyone’s view of how “
limited voting” is supposed to work.
William R. Groth
Fillenwarth Dennerline Groth & Towe, LLP
429 E. Vermont Street, Ste. 200
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Telephone: (317) 353-9363
Fax: (317) 351-7232
E-mail: _wgroth at fdgtlaborlaw.com_ (mailto:wgroth at fdgtlaborlaw.com)
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To me the two terms mean the same thing, but now that you mention it, I
guess this is two different ideas, and I'm not sure what the standard
definition covers.
Richard Winger
415-922-9779
PO Box 470296, San Francisco Ca 94147
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Richard, Does this a system include limited voting, or just limited
nominations?
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