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 Post subject: Sec. of State Charlie White ineligible
PostPosted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 5:06 pm 
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Judge rules Sec. of State Charlie White ineligible, orders Democrat into office
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INDIANAPOLIS | A Marion County judge ruled Thursday Republican Charlie White was ineligible to run for Indiana Secretary of State in 2010 and ordered the Indiana Recount Commission to certify Democrat Vop Osili as the winner.

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 Post subject: Re: Sec. of State Charlie White ineligible
PostPosted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 1:18 pm 
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Order removing Indiana secretary of state on hold

The Associated Press December 23, 2011 4:58PM

Updated: December 24, 2011 2:04AM


INDIANAPOLIS — A judge has put on hold until next week his order that Indiana Secretary of State Charlie White be removed from office because he was improperly registered as a candidate when he ran for office in 2010.

Marion Circuit Court Judge Louis Rosenberg issued the temporary stay Friday after White notified the court that he plans to appeal the judge’s removal order to a higher court. Rosenberg stayed his order until Dec. 29, at which time he’ll hold a hearing to consider White’s request.

On Thursday, Rosenberg had issued an order reversing the Indiana Recount Commission’s unanimous June decision that White was eligible to run for office last year despite questions over his residency. He also ordered the commission to certify Democrat Vop Osili as secretary of state because he received the second most votes in the 2010 election.

State Attorney General Greg Zoeller said he also would appeal Rosenberg’s ruling on behalf of the Recount Commission. He said the state’s motions to trigger the appeals process “will be filed soon.”

As secretary of state, White is Indiana’s top elections official. He won election despite accusations that he lied about where he lived in the 2010 primary so he could continue collecting his salary as a member of the Town Council in Fishers, just north of Indianapolis.

White is facing voter fraud and other charges in a criminal case that arose from those allegations. He’s maintained his innocence, saying the accusations were politically motivated.

Rosenberg’s ruling came in a separate civil lawsuit brought by Democrats seeking to have the commission’s decision overturned and White removed from office and replaced by Osili. White collected nearly 977,000 votes in the election, while Osili got just over 632,000.

Indiana Democratic Party chairman Dan Parker said Friday that White is only prolonging the case and should resign from his post and let Osili take office.

“He would be doing the state of Indiana a favor if he would just step aside and allow Vop Osili to become secretary of state so we can restore honor and dignity to the office,” Parker said.

White instead hired attorney Jonathan Sturgill to file his appeal. The motion contends that “an erroneous removal of a statewide elected official from office would represent a serious matter of disenfranchisement of nearly 1 million voters” and also would disrupt government services and create additional state expenses in switching to a new administration of the office.

Sturgill said Friday that he would seek a continuance of the Dec. 29 hearing because it falls between the Christmas and New Year’s holidays.

“We’d like the hearing to be just past the New Year’s because the parties will be out of town. In between the holidays it’s difficult to make adjustments to calendars,” he said.

Indiana Republican Party Chairman Eric Holcomb said in a statement that the case should “get an immediate hearing before the Indiana Supreme Court,” adding, “This has gone on long enough.”

Defense attorney Carl Brizzi, who represents White on the voter fraud charges that also could result in his removal from office, said Thursday his “client will remain Indiana secretary of state until the end of his term” in 2014.


A Hamilton County grand jury indicted White in March on seven felony counts alleging that he used his ex-wife’s address on voter registration and other documents while he actually lived at a condo where he intended to live with his new wife, and that he collected his council salary after moving out of the district he represented.

White has said the allegations ignored a complicated personal life in which he was trying to raise his 10-year-old son, plan his second marriage and campaign for statewide office.

Hamilton Superior Court Judge Steven Nation on Monday rejected White’s motion to dismiss the seven felony counts and ruled that his trial in Noblesville begin Jan. 30.

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