Roughly 330 candidates for state and federal office could potentially be at risk of being kicked off the ballot this year — a problem that stems from how the office of Indiana Secretary of State Diego Morales has handled candidate filings and oath administration.
Important distinction: candidates who filed inside the Indiana Election Division appear to be fine. The questions relate only to candidates who filed in the Secretary of State’s Statehouse office, outside the Election Division.
In Indiana politics, you can spend millions of dollars, knock on thousands of doors, and deliver a hundred speeches — and still get knocked off the ballot because of a line you signed in five seconds at a filing counter…