CROWN POINT | Given the state's ongoing election foibles, a review of Indiana's election law enforcement processes is needed, the Republican candidate for Indiana attorney general said Thursday.

Greg Zoeller, chief deputy to outgoing Attorney General Steve Carter, called for a post-election review of Indiana's voter registration and fraud enforcement rules.

"The questions being raised need to be addressed in order to maintain public confidence in our election process," he said.

Hoosiers need to trust their elections are fair, he added. Zoeller pointed to absentee ballots as a key source of potential fraud.

Ensuring clean elections statewide has been mired by foggy rules and enforcement policies that vary across counties, he said.

"The state has the duty to make these things much more certain," Zoeller said.

He noted the almost 90 percent success rate by Carter and Lake County Prosecutor Bernard Carter in convicting 26 people of vote fraud stemming from the 2003 East Chicago primary.

Zoeller called for increased collaboration with county prosecutors to ensure state election laws are being followed.

The East Chicago scandal, and Lake County's uber-publicized May primary problems, have shaken people's belief that state and county election processes are legitimate, Zoeller said.

"My biggest fear is that Indiana will become like Florida," he said.

Ballot confusion and fraud allegations sent the Sunshine State's presidential voting results to several courts, with the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately deciding the state's outcome.