I did a search and didn’t find that this had been posted yet.  If it has, please let me know and I will delete this.  

Barry Welsh, the Democratic congressional candidate running against Mike Pence in Indiana’s 6th Congressional District, was attacked today by a Republican voter registration worker.  Barry was defending voter’s rights as Republicans had decided that they wouldn’t register some voters since the registration office was short-handed despite the fact that voters had registered on time.

Here’s a link to the Muncie Star Press article detailing the scuffle.

A Republican voter registration deputy faces battery charges after he tackled a newspaper reporter and hit the Democratic 6th District congressional candidate after a contentious Delaware County Election Board meeting this afternoon.

The meeting had just ended when Will Statom, GOP registration deputy and secretary of the local Republican Party, attacked Star Press reporter Nick Werner while Werner was interviewing Ball State University student Johanna Perez about hundreds of last-minute voter registrations for Democrat Barack Obama’s campaign.

Here’s the link also, to an earlier article from a writer on Blue Indiana.

That’s where Muncie becomes nearly unlike everyone else – GOP members of the Delaware County’s Election Board, faced with registrations filed on time, will not count because there are too many of them and they are short staffed. This is nothing short of voter disenfranchisement and must not be accepted!

If you can, please throw some support to Barry for literally taking one for voter’s rights.  

Barry Welsh’s web page.

Barry’s Act Blue page.

EENR Act Blue Page

For those of you who hadn’t heard or don’t remember, our mayoral election was controversial as well.  Initially, the Democratic candidate won the election by 11 votes.  The Republican’s got the election overturned in their favor by claiming that some of the absentee ballots weren’t filled out correctly.  Turns out that a Republican voter registration worker didn’t fill out his portion of the absentee ballots correctly.  My question, and I’ll post the answer here if I find out is, “Was the voter registration worker who attacked Barry Welsh the same worker who got the election overturned by not filling out the paperwork correctly?”  If so, I really think a revisit to the mayoral election is in order.  I don’t think that it would change anything at this point but it would certainly expose some corruption on the part of the local Republicans.

Here’s a link from Blue Indiana on the Muncie mayoral mess.