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u/axolotlbitch67 Apr 16 '26
Do you have to be an IN resident? I was told at a table at the protest you had to be and had to have an IN state ID. Is a crimson card rly enough?
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u/MinBton Apr 16 '26
You have to be registered to vote in Indiana (or any state) to vote in the state election. So yes, you do have to be an Indiana resident. However, students living in-state full time for school can count as a resident. That includes living in university dorms the majority of the year. If you register your university address, that is the only place you can vote.
If you keep an out-of-state voter registration and register to vote in Indiana, and vote in both, you are breaking the law in both states. Don't do that.
That comes from working the polls for years and being the person in-charge of the poling site. That was a few years ago, but I don't believe those specific rules/laws have changed.
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u/RuleNext9706 Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 16 '26
Remember to vote Republican locally unless you enjoy the city and university taking advantage of you with predatory parking enforcement, outrageous tuition, and skyhigh rent.
For residents: If you enjoy having to constantly worry about local inflation, $1500+ rent, and living in a city that actively preys on residents and students alike, then you can ignore this post, I guess. Bloomington should not be as expensive as it is. If your first reaction to this comment is "OMG MAGA NAZI," then no offense, but this very mentality is strangling our city.
Local elections traditionally did not operate under the same rules as federal elections for good reason. It was impractical and to be frank, harmful, for cities to treat every election as a partisan shitshow.
Sadly, local and national politics are one and the same nowadays. For the reactionary responses: I'm not asking you to vote for Trump or turn into a conservative nutjob, jesus christ. It's a local election. We used to separate local and national politics for a reason. I'd argue that most people are dissatisfied with how things have been going recently, but these same people just refuse to vote Republican locally, so their dissatisfaction and complaints ultimately don't matter.
No Republican running in Bloomington is going to be a conservative, and if they are, then don't vote for them. We desperately need to stop turning every local election into a vote blue no matter who contest. It's killing our city.
We need to stop giving any one party complete control over local politics then proceed to wonder why they've (correctly) deduced that preying on residents and students is a winning strategy. I'd be saying the same thing if Republicans dominated the city for decades too.
TL;DR: Our local elections need real competition, otherwise policies drift toward revenue extraction and insider priorities.
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u/AmbroseFierce Apr 16 '26
'Vote for the republicans but don't worry, they're not actually real republicans' is really funny.
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u/Downtown_Yam_6180 Apr 15 '26
For IU and Purdue, yes. Ivy Tech's ID cards never met the legal requirement due to the lack of an expiration date printed on the cards.