Tag Archives: election

Note to BMV: This is how the voting age works

If we had believed the workers at the Waynedale Bureau of Motor Vehicles, my son would not be voting in the primary next week. They kept insisting that 17-year-olds cannot vote in the primary if they turn 18 before the general election in November. But the following is from the Indiana Secretary of State’s Web [...]

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Pickin’ on government web sites again

Shouldn’t the city of Fort Wayne’s web site at least acknowledge that there is an election today? A link to a slate of candidates would be nice, too.

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Vote! Polls close at 6 p.m.

Go to the indianavoters.com web site if you need to find your polling place. Don’t assume it’s the closest polling place you know of. (There are two other polling places between my house and my polling place.) And you don’t have to vote in all of the races. If you just want to vote for [...]

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A maddening map of the precincts

Has anyone ever successfully used the Allen County GIS system to determine his own precinct or polling place? I appreciate the effort that went into gathering all the information and pulling it into one system. But the county system is a classic example of enterprise software being written for programmers rather than for end users. [...]

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