INDIANA - Protecting Voter Registration - An Assessment of Voter Purge Policies in Ten States

Instead, in every odd-numbered year, the registrar checks on eligibility by sending a non-for- wardable mailing to all registered voters.98 If the postal service returns the mailing as undeliverable, the registrar does not immediately move the voter to the inactive list but instead sends the voter a second, forwardable confir- mation notice.99 Such voters are moved to the inactive list only if the. [...] However, Indiana does allow for individual challenges at the voter’s precinct by a third party or a member of the precinct election board.103 The state does have some restrictions on what types of challenges can be made104 and voters may sign an affidavit and vote using a provisional ballot if their qualifications are challenged.105 On the other hand, Indiana lacks notice procedures when a voter i. [...] Although the voter file is technically free to the public, only a restricted version is available, containing only names, addresses, and the voters’ election district.112 The complete file is available only to political parties, independent candidates, a member of the media for publication in a news broadcast or newspaper, the chief justice of the supreme court and clerks of U. [...] district courts for administering the jury management system, the speaker and minority leader of the house of representatives, the president pro tempore and the minority leader of the senate.113 Political parties, candidates, and members of the media must pay an annual subscription fee of $5,000 for this file.114 Indiana does provide the restricted voter file as an electronic text file, but the da. [...] Indiana 52 indicating that the voter might be registered in another state.118Although the third-party database, known as Crosscheck, was notoriously inaccurate, the 2017 law would have allowed Indiana automatically to remove a voter from the rolls if the voter was identified as a database “match,” without any advance notice to the voter.119 The Seventh Circuit enjoined this practice for violating.