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Lipstick Ballots and Election Battles | Fort Wayne News
In 1987, a razor-thin 47-vote win in Indiana’s 2nd District hinged on a 77-day hand recount overseen by future Senator Evan Bayh, where a smudged lipstick ballot—counted as accidental—helped flip the outcome. Fast forward to today, and a similar tension resurfaces: the Indiana Recount Commission tossed out 10 absentee ballots for minor technical flaws, giving Paula Copenhaver a 3-vote win over Spencer Deery. Bayh, now a vocal critic, argues the commission is ignoring Indiana’s historic precedent of prioritizing voter intent over bureaucratic nitpicks. Deery accuses the Republican-led…
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