Category: Indiana

Electionjournal.org, Twitter, and Indiana

Electionjournal.org has people on the ground in Indiana reporting on incidents at polling locations across the state.  The site makes interesting use of Twitter.   Twitter basically makes anyone with a cellphone or a blackberry into an on-the-spot reporter/eyewitness, whose messages can be instantly read by others.  Here, EJ has found alleged incidents of campaigning in polling […]

Collecting Fines

Federal and state campaign finance and ethics enforcement agencies fine campaigns and political committees all the time.  But what if they need to collect from a reluctant respondent?  In Indiana, a mayoral candidate may learn how the Indiana Election Division plans to proceed: According to an e-mail from Leslie Barnes, co-counsel with the Indiana Election […]