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This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, August 8th, 2023. In today’s feature report, WFHB Correspondent Brookelyn Lambright touches on the impact of redistricting on Indiana’s 2024 election, speaking with Executive Director of Common Cause Indiana Julia Vaughn. More in the bottom half of tonight’s program. Also coming up in the next half hour, Lil Bub’s Lil Show – …

Common Cause Indiana, a nonprofit organization advocating for redistricting reform discusses the impact of severe gerrymandering across the state. In Indiana, the legislative maps used to divide Hoosiers into voting districts are more biased towards one party than 95% of maps drawn in other U.S. states. What is expected to be a fair process meant to encourage voter turnout and …

With Indiana lawmakers set to reconvene at the end of the year to “approve new congressional and General Assembly districts,” nonpartisan organization Common Cause Indiana hosted a voting rights webinar this past week to educate Hoosiers on many aspects of redistricting across the state. The state’s history of gerrymandering in the drawing of its districts has led both Indiana voters …

We present this month’s edition of Civic Conversations – a podcast brought to you by the League of Women Voters of Bloomington and Monroe County in collaboration with the WFHB Local News. Today’s episode focuses on a review of the 2020 election. You will hear host Jim Allison’s interview with Julia Vaughn, Policy Director for Common Cause Indiana. Groups like …

A federal judge is blocking a new program that would allow state officials to purge voter data from Indiana’s election rolls. The ruling, issued Friday by U.S. District Court Hon. Judge Tanya Walton Pratt, temporarily bars the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program from going into effect. The Crosscheck Program is meant to prevent elections fraud and double voting- where voters …