Indiana Senate District 45 Race Undecided With a 297-Vote Margin: Clark County Election Board Meets November 10 Over Ballots From Jeffersonville High School Site Where a Machine Jammed
Indianapolis — The unofficial result in Indiana Senate District 45, which includes Clark County and a sliver of Floyd County, has Republican Chris Garten leading his Democratic opponent Nick Marshall by 297 votes. Garten is the presumptive incoming Senate Republican leader.
After Democratic Party officials raised concern about Election Day hiccups at the Jeffersonville High School polling site, the Clark County Election Board will count ballots cast at that location during a meeting on November 10, according to a notice released November 6. The board will not tally votes for candidates at the meeting, according to the notice.
Adam Dickey, chair of the 9th Congressional District Democratic Party, told the Indianapolis Star that concerns were raised after a voting machine temporarily jammed on Election Day. While the machine was down, voters were able to place their ballots in an auxiliary box to be scanned later that night. The four affected precincts cast 2,280 votes in the Senate District 45 race, according to the Indiana secretary of state's election results, roughly 60 percent of which went to Marshall.
Garten said in a statement that he was confident in his victory and criticised Democrats' concerns as politically motivated speculation. There is an important distinction, he said, between raising legitimate questions about an election and making unsubstantiated allegations that undermine public confidence in the integrity of elections. Marshall has not yet conceded, telling supporters on his campaign Facebook page to stand by while democracy plays out. He declined to comment to the Star. Clark County Clerk Ryan Lynch was not in the office when the Star called on November 9 and did not return a voicemail.
The race for Clark County auditor is also close. Republican R. Monty Snelling currently leads Democrat Antonio Veals by 257 votes, according to election results from the Indiana secretary of state's office. The deadline to certify votes for state legislative offices is November 16, just before the ceremonial start to the legislative session. Indiana's November 3 elections elected two Democratic statewide candidates, flipped more than a dozen state legislative seats and gave Democrats an additional congressional seat.
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