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This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, June 14th, 2022.
Later in the program, WFHB News speaks with Allison Kuehr, Communications and Public Relations Manager for the Indiana Commission for Higher Education, about record lows in terms of high school seniors pursuing higher education. More in today’s feature report.
Also coming up in the next half hour, the Monroe County Election Board gave an update on voter registration during their June 9th meeting. That’s coming up next in your daily headlines.
Monroe County Election Board
At the Election Board meeting on June 9th the board heard from individuals who filed their CFA-4 forms late.
Chair of the Monroe County Young Democrats, Anna Abernathy presented on behalf of the organization, and explained they filed their form late due to the treasurer at the time being new.
The board will vote on whether or not to waive their fine at their next meeting.
Next, Mary Van Devander spoke explaining that she is running for Washington Township Trustee for the first time and did not understand that she would have to file even though she hadn’t received any donations.
The board moved to waive the fine since it is her first offense.
Election Supervisor Karen Wheeler gave an update on voter registration, and asked the board how they would like to handle addresses that are not permanent residences.
Chair of the board, Shruti Rana said that she agrees that the rule to treat people uniformly is important.
Wheeler added that the election board is not responsible for verifying that the information is correct when individuals fill out their voter registration, and that trying to verify all of the addresses would be nearly impossible.
Rana said since residents are signing a legal document the Election Board should rely on that instead of trying to police it themselves to ensure everyone is treated equally.
The board voted unanimously to establish that they will accept the information filled out on the affidavit as sufficient and won’t require extra verification moving forward.
The next Election Board meeting will be held on August 4th.
Feature Reports:
In today’s feature report, WFHB News Director Kade Young speaks with Allison Kuehr, Communications and Public Relations Manager for the Indiana Commission for Higher Education, about recently released data showing 53 percent of high school graduates attended college in 2020 – which is 12 points down from the numbers in 2015.
Credits:
You’ve been listening to the WFHB Local News,
Today’s headlines were written by Noelle Herhusky-Schneider, in partnership with Cats – Community Access Television Services.
Our feature was produced by Kade Young.
Our theme music is provided by Mark Bingham and the Social Climbers.
Engineer and Executive producer is Kade Young.
