The Outstater

November 10, 2020

THE INDIANA GOP is celebrating that the Party’s Black and Hispanic vote increased slightly Nov. 3. The leadership, however, might have stopped patting itself on the back long enough to join a lawsuit seeking to ensure that those Black and Hispanic votes will matter.

Indiana was not among 10 states that filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to overturn a partisan ruling that extended the deadline for mail-in ballots. 

Neighboring Kentucky gets it. “What happens in other states during a presidential election matters to Kentuckians because we are electing our president and vice president,” said the Kentucky Attorney General. “This is not about courts dictating who wins or loses, but about transparency and rule of law issues.”

This, friends, is not rocket science. First, the U.S. may be the only functioning democracy that allows the willy-nilly mailing of ballots to a random unverified electorate. Second, that policy tips over into insanity when you allow a governor, not a legislature or a constitution, to change the rules for how and when ballots are gathered and counted — and to do so only weeks before the election.

The issue is not whether an old fraud like Joe Biden can be denied the White House but whether we (whites, blacks and browns) are going to be afforded the benefit of election laws. For if we are not, then we will find ourselves one day soon voting one last time.

It is dismaying that the Indiana Republican Party is on record being reticent about all of that. What do they do in Indianapolis anyway? — tcl

Our Site

Full use of this site, including access to the search function and the archive of past articles and journals, is now available to everyone.

Connect with Us

 

Our mission is to marshal the best thought on governmental, economic and educational issues at the state and municipal levels. We seek to accomplish this in ways that:

• Exalt the truths of the Declaration of Independence, especially as they apply to the interrelated freedoms of religion, property and speech.
• Emphasize the primacy of the individual in addressing public concerns.
• Recognize that equality of opportunity is sacrificed in pursuit of equality of results.

The Indiana Policy Review Foundation is a non-profit education foundation focused on state and municipal issues. It is free of outside control by any individual, organization or group. It exists solely to conduct and distribute research on Indiana issues. Nothing written here is to be construed as reflecting the views of the Indiana Policy Review Foundation or as an attempt to aid or hinder the passage of any bill before the legislature or to further any political campaign.

The foundation's white papers are intended to make scholarly research on Indiana issues more widely available to policy analysts and researchers. White Papers represent research in progress and are published to invite comment and discussion as preparation for their submission to academic journals and other professional publications. The authors are solely responsible for the content of their research and analysis.