Every seat was full and several had to stand in the back of a small courtroom at the Bloomington Justice Building Wednesday. Many of them were in support of a proposal for satellite voting this October, but they would soon be disappointed.
The Monroe County Election Board met to publicly decide the fate of satellite voting in the highly anticipated November elections.
“Voting is really where the wheel hits the ground,” said Chaim Julian, chairman of Democracy for Monroe County. “That’s where the citizens are really able to make their voices heard. We really need to make it as accessible as we can.”
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However, Justin Kingsolver, president of the IU College Republicans, expressed his concern with satellite voting in a previous interview. The spirit of voting is that everyone votes at the same time, under the same circumstances, Kingsolver said.
“We can get our supporters to the polls on election day,” Kingsolver said. “It takes longer for the Democrats to localize.”
Dietz said before the meeting that he was unsure of which way the vote would go.
“There seems to be a concerted effort to block this kind of voting by the Republicans,” Dietz said. “I don’t know if that will be the case here; I hope it won’t.”
Read the full story at the Indiana Daily Student.
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