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Marion County Election Board directs staff to investigate campaign video showing county election workers
Summary
On May 21, 2025, the Marion County Election Board voted to direct staff to investigate whether footage of county staff and volunteers that appeared in a campaign video violated state election law (Title 3 / Indiana Code references were raised).
The Marion County Election Board voted on May 21 to direct staff to investigate whether footage shot at the county’s central absentee ballot-counting facility was used in a campaign video in a way that violates Indiana election law.
The board’s director of elections, Patrick Becker, told members the footage was recorded at the Marion County Election Board Service Center on Nov. 5, 2024, and that portions of that footage later appeared in a campaign video posted by Secretary of State Diego Morales and the Diego for Indiana campaign on May 1, 2025. Becker said Clerk Vell had asked the campaign on May 7 to cease using the footage and requested the images be removed by May 12; the county then forwarded the request again to the campaign’s email on May 16 after receiving a response from the Secretary…
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