Indiana’s Voter ID Snags Busloads of Illinois Voters

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Voter ID Law Catches Illinois Residents Trying To Vote In Lake County, Indiana, according to testimony before the Lake County election board.

It was just a matter of time before the stories of strange happenings came out of Lake County, Indiana’s primary voting and we’re just not talking about how long it took for Gary, Indiana to count its votes — despite widespread use of electronic voting machines in regular and early absentee voting.

The Northwest Indiana Times reports that the Lake County election board heard testimony that “busloads of Illinois residents and downstate Indiana students” appeared at Lake County polls hoping to vote. Election officials at the polling places didn’t allow the out-of-state and the downstate voters to cast ballots in the Indiana primary when Illinois drivers’ licenses were presented to poll workers, reports the newspaper.

Reports Bill Dolan in “Wrong Primary, Voters Are Told. Complaint Says Busloads of Illinois Residents Tried To Vote In Indiana.”

Raymond Lopez, chairman of the East Chicago and Whiting Republican organization, told the Lake County elections board, busloads of Illinois residents and downstate Indiana students who weren’t registered to vote in East Chicago or Whiting appeared at those communities’ polls, according to Republican election workers to whom he spoke.

“It was quite a few. They showed us Illinois driver’s licenses. We asked them why they were here and they said ‘We were told to vote here.’”

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