Early voting season ends with line extending outside polling centers

THE TIMES Election judge Lois Lovekamp gives instruction on how to use the Microvote machines to vote Monday at the Lake County Government Complex in Crown Point.

Some Democrats jump party lines for McCain

Kevin DuJan, a lifelong Democrat, was so dedicated to his party that he once abandoned a blind date to avoid going out with a Republican.

Long lines likely will delay voting results

CROWN POINT | Lake County elections officials expect another long night before results of Lake County's historic vote are known.

Early voting season ends with line extending outside polling centers

JOHN J. WATKINS

McCain visits battleground Indiana day before election; Obama to be in Indy today

Indiana remains a political battlefield in the closing hours of an epic, battering presidential campaign.

Early voting season ends with line extending outside polling centers

CROWN POINT | A tumultuous early voting season ended at noon Monday in Lake County when Merrillville resident Troy Williams arrived at the end of a line of that extended through the hallways and spilled down the front entrance stairs outside the Lake County Government Complex.

Rokita expects record turnout

INDIANAPOLIS | Indiana's chief elections official is urging patience as Hoosiers head to polls for an Election Day expected to draw record turnout.

Indiana up for grabs in presidential race

The question could be answered tomorrow, but for now, and for months, everyone from political experts to Hoosiers themselves have asked, if Indiana's electoral votes will go to a Democrat.

Rally planning at times tricky

NATALIE BATTAGLIA

Rally planning at times tricky

THE TIMES Lake Station's Local 125 stagehands Travis Casbon, left, and Tom Bradshaw install benches Thursday as they get Wicker Park ready for tonight's rally.

USW leader stumps for Obama

GARY | Canadian Leo Gerard was in Northwest Indiana Thursday stumping as hard for Barack Obama and Indiana's 11 electoral votes as he does to protect the jobs of his workers.

Rally planning at times tricky

HIGHLAND | Town and township workers scrambled Thursday to prepare for tonight's Barack Obama rally in Wicker Park.

GOP no longer wants early votes tossed

INDIANAPOLIS | Lake County Republicans are no longer asking the courts to throw out ballots cast at contested early voting sites in East Chicago, Gary and Hammond.

Report: Callers ditch anti-Obama script

Reports of potential political phone call misdeeds in Indiana are ringing off the hook.

Wicker Park to host Obama rally Friday

HIGHLAND | Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Barack Obama plans a homestretch election stop in the region Friday heading into Tuesday's general election.

Lake County officials to decide long lines issue during election meeting Saturday

CROWN POINT | Lake County elections officials are debating whether long lines anticipated at polling places on Election Day should be deemed a voting emergency.

ACORN defends staff over dead voter application

CROWN POINT | An ACORN official defended his staff Wednesday against GOP allegations of voter registration fraud centering around an application filled out in the name of a dead Hammond woman.

Lake early voter lines grow, as does the wait

CROWN POINT | Voters have begun to find long lines and waits at Lake County's four early in-person voting centers.

Lake GOP appeals early voting centers

INDIANAPOLIS | The Lake County Republican Party is back before the Indiana Supreme Court in its fight to close early voting centers in Gary, Hammond and East Chicago.

Judge keeps early voting in place

HAMMOND | Early voting satellite centers in Gary, Hammond and East Chicago will remain open following a Wednesday ruling in Lake County Superior Court.