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Friday, October 01, 2010
Ind. Courts - Warning: You may not receive a ballot for the upcoming JNC election
This will be the most contested race ever for an attorney seat on the Judicial Nominating Commission. Per the Clerk of the Courts:
Ballots and biographies of each candidate will be mailed to all Second District attorneys on October 12, 2010. Ballots are due by 4:00 p.m. on November 10, 2010. The Clerk of the Supreme Court will count the ballots at 10:00 a.m. on November 12, 2010.ILB: Here are reasons you may not receive a ballot:
- You are not a Second District attorney. Here is an interactive map of the Second Judicial District. Here is a list: Adams, Blackford, Carroll, Cass, Clinton, Delaware, Grant, Hamilton, Howard, Huntington, Jay, Madison, Marion, Miami, Tippecanoe, Tipton, Wabash, Wells and White. (I was surprised when I looked at the map, I'd always thought of the 2nd District as the middle third of the State.)
So if you live in Boone, Hendricks, or Johnson County, for instance, you can't vote.
- Notice I said "live in," as the ballots are sent to your home address. You may practice in Marion County, but if you live in Johnson County, you won't receive a ballot.
- You also won't receive a ballot if you did not provide a home address on your annual bar registration. Fortunately, you can still remedy this if you act quickly. (You may not have provided a home address because you didn't want it showing up on the online Roll of Attorneys.) Use the Clerk's Change of Address form to remedy this ASAP. I'm told they will be making up the final mailing list of home addresses on Oct. 8th.
- Finally, some of you may practice out of a home office, and provided your home address as your business address, and left home address blank. I don't know how you can tell if that will be a problem for you, unless you retained a copy of the annual registration form the Clerk sent out in August. It has been suggested to me that if you received a Notice of Election in August, then they are using your home address. But no, that may have been sent to what the Clerk's Office has listed as your business address -- it is unclear to me.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on October 1, 2010 11:20 AM
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