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ELKHART — Pontoons, power boats, bass boats, even a Jet Ski, were among more than 80 watercraft in a parade Sunday on the upper St. Joseph River in support of President Donald Trump.
GOSHEN — Several early-voting options are available ahead of the November election but also some deadlines.
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GOSHEN — County election officials have stocked up on personal protective equipment for the general election, but face mask requirements are still an open question.
ELKHART — The upper St. Joseph River in Elkhart will be the scene for a boat parade in support of President Donald Trump later this month.
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ELKHART — One hundred years have passed since the ratification of the 19th amendment, which placed in the U.S. Constitution women’s right to vote.
GOSHEN — Elkhart County Clerk of the Circuit Court Chris Anderson released a preliminary list of candidates Friday after the close of school board filings.
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GOSHEN — Voting by mail is still an option for anyone who doesn’t want to come to the polls in person on Nov. 3, though the warning from county election officials is, don’t procrastinate.
GOSHEN — Former Goshen College professor Maria Sanchez Schirch has stepped forward for the Goshen School Board’s District 2 seat in the Nov. 3 election.
ELKHART — In conjunction with the exhibition “Politics & Religion,” the Midwest Museum of American Art will host the League of Women Voters of Elkhart County to help residents with voter registration.
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ELKHART — Aaron Mishler was selected and sworn in as Elkhart’s newest City Council member Wednesday evening.
ELKHART — An online seminar on voting by mail takes place Wednesday evening and is sponsored by the Elkhart branches of League of Women Voters and NAACP.
ELKHART — Democrats will choose their replacement for former Elkhart City Councilman Gerry Roberts on Aug. 12, the party announced Thursday.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill’s bid for reelection was scuttled Friday as he lost the Republican nomination following a monthlong suspension of his law license over allegations that he groped a state lawmaker and three other women during a party.
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ELKHART — Recently elected City Council member Gerry Roberts is giving up his seat to move out of his district.
GOSHEN — Former mayor Allan Kauffman announced he will be a candidate for Goshen Community School Board District 4 in the November election.
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Democrats announced Wednesday that former Evansville Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel will be their nominee for state attorney general, a race that attracted numerous candidates from both parties after Republican incumbent Curtis Hill was disciplined over allegations of gropi…
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Democrats are announcing this week who will run for state attorney general in November.
GOSHEN — The primary election results for Elkhart County were declared official Friday afternoon.
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GOSHEN — Some county council candidates widened their leads as more mail-in votes were added to the primary election total Thursday, but no results changed from Tuesday.
ELKHART — From first-timers to long-timers, winners and losers, primary candidates throughout Elkhart County were forced to change their plans heading into the election Tuesday.
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GOSHEN — At about 1,000 outstanding ballots, the number of votes yet to be counted in the Elkhart County primary election is far fewer than first thought.
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GOSHEN — Brad Rogers is the likely winner in the Republican primary race for Elkhart County Commissioners District 2.
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Ron and Lydia Cripe weren’t going to let a pandemic stop them from voting.
GOSHEN — Voters in Elkhart County will be greeted with masked pollworkers, sanitizing wipes and Q-tips to mark their ballots on touchscreen machines during the delayed primary election Tuesday.
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana's top election official on Friday rejected a request for extending the deadline for returning mail-in ballots for next week's primary election, despite worries that thousands of them could arrive late and go uncounted.
GOSHEN — Twenty-nine vote centers have been confirmed for the primary election Tuesday after some traditional locations opted out because of the coronavirus outbreak.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The state's award of a $17.9 million contract for operating dozens of coronavirus testing sites across Indiana came weeks after a company executive gave $50,000 to the governor's reelection campaign.
GOSHEN — In the Democratic primary for the Indiana House District 49 seat, a Goshen School Board member working for Pete Buttigieg’s PAC is up against a former attorney who has had his share of scrapes with the party and the legal system.
ELKHART — Applications for mail-in ballots for the primary election are the highest Elkhart County has ever seen, according to local election officials.
INDIANAPOLIS — Former U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita announced Wednesday that he will challenge state Attorney General Curtis Hill’s reelection bid, arguing Hill has been “wounded” by allegations that he groped a state lawmaker and three other women and that Republicans shouldn’t nominate him for the…
GOSHEN — Sitting judges in two courts face opponents in the Republican primary election this year.
GOSHEN — Former Elkhart County Sheriff Brad Rogers is challenging longtime incumbent Mike Yoder on the Republican primary ballot for the county Board of Commissioners.
MISHAWAKA — Christopher Davis, a signal maintainer for Norfolk Southern Railroad, is running for Congress.
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ELKHART — Though Tuesday was supposed to be Election Day, candidates in the Elkhart County primaries have hardly done any campaigning.
GOSHEN — Election officials in Elkhart County strongly encourage voting by mail for this year’s primary, and in some cases it may be the only option.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders, who saw his once strong lead in the Democratic primary evaporate as the party's establishment lined swiftly up behind rival Joe Biden, ended his presidential bid on Wednesday, an acknowledgment that the former vice president is too far ahead for him to have …
GOSHEN — With the postponement of the primary election in Indiana comes another delay – postponement of absentee in-person voting, Elkhart County officials announced Monday.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana’s political leaders announced Friday that they agreed to push back the state primary by nearly a month, to June 2, and to allow all voters to cast mail-in ballots due to the coronavirus pandemic.
GOSHEN — Absentee voting in-person for the 2020 presidential primary election will begin at 8 a.m. Tuesday, April 7, at Elkhart and Goshen absentee voting locations, according to Clerk of the Circuit Court Christopher Anderson.
ELKHART — The Elkhart County Election Board, Voter Registration, the Elkhart County Board of Commissioners and the Elkhart County Health Department plan to open a part-time Voter Registration Office in downtown Elkhart.
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ELKHART — Local state lawmakers are among dozens in Indiana who received campaign support from the leaders of two virtual charter schools accused of taking millions of dollars in state funding despite, in some cases, having no online course activity.
INDIANAPOLIS — A prominent supporter of Indiana’s attorney general is arguing that a proposed suspension of his law license over allegations of drunkenly groping four women is excessive and that even the proposed punishment wouldn’t force him from office.
GOSHEN — Charles D. Mumaw has announced his candidacy for the state Senate seat for District 12. He is the only Democratic candidate who filed in the race before the deadline.
This story was updated to include names of candidates in some races mistakenly omitted because they filed with the Indiana Secretary of State’s Office in Indianapolis and were not yet recorded in the Elkhart County clerk's office.
INDIANAPOLIS — Democrat Josh Owens has dropped out of the race to be Indiana’s next governor, despite getting enough signatures to qualify, his campaign said on Wednesday.
GOSHEN — Four Democratic women filed Thursday to run for Elkhart County Council at-large, saying not enough women hold public office.
ELKHART — With just over a week left to file in Indiana primary elections, it appears Elkhart County voters will not need to influence the November ballot much.
GOSHEN — Mike Yoder has announced his bid for reelection as an Elkhart County commissioner.
INDIANAPOLIS — U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski, a Republican, has filed for reelection to continue representing Indiana’s 2nd District in Congress.
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb isn’t yet throwing his support behind a top official of his administration in challenging the state attorney general who is awaiting the outcome from an investigation into allegations of drunkenly groping four women.
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