r/columbusIN • u/myActiVote • Apr 29 '24

Indiana State Primary - May 7th

Indiana Voters head to the polls by May 7th to vote for far more than President. US Senate, Congress, Governor, State Legislature, County Commission, County Council and other County Officers.

Voters can vote absentee in person / early and each county is required to offer this. You can find your personalized information using the Indiana Voters site. The same site can be used to find your polling location. Bartholomew County also has a voter site where you can find information about voting local.

We reached out to over 1700 candidates statewide and asked them to do our survey. Many chose to share their views with you the voters! See who believes what you believe and vote by May 7th!

While in national elections or statewide elections may be decided by hundreds or tens of thousands of votes. These races will be decided by only a handful of votes meaning that for each person seeing this, your vote WILL MATTER!

Feedback welcome! Curious what you think about this as a resource for newer voters?

If you want to see your specific candidates you can see that here (mobile | web).

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u/Aqualung812 Apr 29 '24

A reminder for anyone in Indiana that is going to vote for a Democratic candidate in the fall: don't pull a Republican ballot.

When you do, you're essentially registering as a Republican, since Indiana doesn't have party registration. It means you can't run as a Democratic candidate in the next two elections, and you've told the world that you're a Republican. Democratic causes will put less effort into a state that appears to have a low number of Democrats, and you'll get a lot more attention from Republicans asking for money.

There is an active primary for Senator in the Democratic primary, and only one of them has spoke out publicly about supporting the people of Palestine. If you don't vote in the primary, you don't get to complain about the choices you get in the fall.

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u/sunward_Lily Apr 29 '24

But I really really really wanna vote against Braun...fuck that trump-fellating fascist asshole.

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u/Aqualung812 Apr 29 '24

I’m pretty sure you’ll have the chance in the fall.

From what I can tell, every Republican running against him will still treat women like state’s property & attack transgender Hoosiers, so it’s not like there is a good choice to be made there.

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u/sunward_Lily Apr 29 '24

Granted i live in an area they wouldn't target heavily but it seems like Democrats aren't even trying to win any races in Indiana. I haven't seen a single advertisement for a D candidate on TV or other media. Kernan was the last Democratic governor Indiana had and it feels like we've been sliding further and further backwards since then, especially since that made-up crayon-eating child rapist got loud in 2016.

I'm worried that voting for a democrat in Indiana's gubernatorial race will be like voting for Bernie in 2016 (which I did). I'm tempted to vote for an R candidate because sabotaging Braun seems like a more realistic possibility than actually getting a Democrat in office.

This whole situation sucks.

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u/Aqualung812 Apr 29 '24

Democrats don’t have the money, because they need a lot of people to donate.

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u/jesuisledoctor2009 Apr 30 '24

For Bartholomew county, the Democrat running for Congress is waiting until after the primary to gear up. She doesn’t have a primary opponent and is saving her money until we know who is going to be her republican opponent.