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(INDIANAPOLIS) Senate Republicans still want to add extra security measures around
absentee ballots.
number when you request an absentee ballot. Instead, the chamber voted to add that requirement
when requesting a ballot online.
Salem Republican Erin Houchin, who authored the original Senate bill, says absentee ballots
need the equivalent of the in-person voter ID law. She says there have been cases of
people requesting and casting absentee ballots in someone else’s name, leaving an unsuspecting
voter to show up at the polls and be told he’s already voted. Houchin concedes those cases have
been rare, but says there needs to be zero tolerance for depriving anyone of the right to vote.
(INDIANAPOLIS) Indiana’s legislative session is less than a month old, and leaders are already
resigned to coming back this summer.
The Census Bureau announced this week it won’t complete the population data states need to
redraw congressional maps until April 30, a day after the General Assembly is required by law to
adjourn. And it’ll be July before it delivers the more detailed data needed to draw state legislative
maps. House Speaker Todd Huston (R-Fishers) and Senate President Pro Tem Rod Bray (R-
Martinsville) say legislators will have to come back to write the new districts, probably in late