印第安纳州参议院第45选区仅差297票未定：克拉克县选举委员会11月10日开会处理杰斐逊维尔高中投票点机器卡顿所涉选票
印第安纳波利斯 — 印第安纳州参议院第 45 选区的非官方结果显示，共和党人加滕领先民主党对手马歇尔 297 票。该选区包括克拉克县与弗洛伊德县一小部分。加滕为预定的参议院共和党新任领袖人选。
民主党官员对杰斐逊维尔高中投票点选举日出现的问题提出关切后，克拉克县选举委员会定于 11 月 10 日开会，清点在该地点投出的选票。委员会 11 月 6 日发布的通知载明了这一安排。会议将不统计候选人得票，通知同时作了说明。
第九国会选区民主党主席迪基对印第安纳波利斯星报表示，关切源于选举日一台投票机一度卡顿。机器停用期间，选民可把选票放入一个辅助箱，以便当晚稍后扫描。受影响的四个投票区在第 45 选区共投出 2280 票，据印第安纳州州务卿的选举结果，其中约六成投给了马歇尔。
加滕在声明中表示对胜选有信心，并批评民主党的关切是出于政治动机的猜测。他说，提出正当的选举问题与作出破坏公众对选举完整性信心的无根据指控之间有重要区别。马歇尔尚未认输，他在竞选脸书页面请支持者稍候，让民主程序走完，并未向该报置评。克拉克县书记官林奇 11 月 9 日不在办公室，未回覆留言。
同县另一场竞选同样接近。克拉克县审计官一职，共和党人斯内林目前以 257 票领先民主党人维尔斯，数字来自州务卿办公室。州立法职位选票的认证截止日为 11 月 16 日，其后即为立法会期的礼仪性开幕。在印第安纳州 11 月 3 日的选举中，民主党赢得两个全州职位、翻转十余个州立法席位，并多得一个国会席位。
Indiana Senate District 45 Race Undecided With a 297-Vote Margin: Clark County Election Board Meets November 10 Over Ballots From Jeffersonville High School Site Where a Machine Jammed
Indianapolis — The unofficial result in Indiana Senate District 45, which includes Clark County and a sliver of Floyd County, has Republican Chris Garten leading his Democratic opponent Nick Marshall by 297 votes. Garten is the presumptive incoming Senate Republican leader.
After Democratic Party officials raised concern about Election Day hiccups at the Jeffersonville High School polling site, the Clark County Election Board will count ballots cast at that location during a meeting on November 10, according to a notice released November 6. The board will not tally votes for candidates at the meeting, according to the notice.
Adam Dickey, chair of the 9th Congressional District Democratic Party, told the Indianapolis Star that concerns were raised after a voting machine temporarily jammed on Election Day. While the machine was down, voters were able to place their ballots in an auxiliary box to be scanned later that night. The four affected precincts cast 2,280 votes in the Senate District 45 race, according to the Indiana secretary of state's election results, roughly 60 percent of which went to Marshall.
Garten said in a statement that he was confident in his victory and criticised Democrats' concerns as politically motivated speculation. There is an important distinction, he said, between raising legitimate questions about an election and making unsubstantiated allegations that undermine public confidence in the integrity of elections. Marshall has not yet conceded, telling supporters on his campaign Facebook page to stand by while democracy plays out. He declined to comment to the Star. Clark County Clerk Ryan Lynch was not in the office when the Star called on November 9 and did not return a voicemail.
The race for Clark County auditor is also close. Republican R. Monty Snelling currently leads Democrat Antonio Veals by 257 votes, according to election results from the Indiana secretary of state's office. The deadline to certify votes for state legislative offices is November 16, just before the ceremonial start to the legislative session. Indiana's November 3 elections elected two Democratic statewide candidates, flipped more than a dozen state legislative seats and gave Democrats an additional congressional seat.
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