Voting challenge in the 6th District
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Posted: 1:57 PM Nov 10, 2007
Last Updated: 1:59 PM Nov 10, 2007

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The winning Mishawaka councilman still wants to challenge whether or not some voters should have been able to vote in his district.

Democratic incumbent Ron Banicki says a number of Bethel College students should not be able to vote in the 6th district, because they live in the 5th District.

He wants students to vote with provisional ballots until they can prove they live in his district.

“We are not necessarily challenging students from Bethel College but anybody that lives in the wrong district faculty staff commuter students that live in the different districts,” says 6th District Incumbent Ron Banicki.

Banicki's challenger was a Bethel College professor.

The election board also says workers were reprimanded today after students were harassed and intimidated while trying to vote in the district.

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Posted by: Miffed Location: Mishawaka on Nov 7, 2007 at 10:40 PM
Ron Banicki is a not so nice guy. He was throwing all kinds of mud around and I think it was poor behavior for the students to be given a hard time by his guys at the polls. What a way to get young people excited about voting. It's kind of funny how the meeting to address this issue was canceled before the election by the democratic controlled committee. I have never seen one ND, Holy Cross, or St Marys student challenged and they have their own zip code! The votes would of most likely not mattered anyways, but Mr Schmidt ran a good honest and clean run....just like our Mayor. Proud to be a Mishawaka Republican!


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