IN: Board of Elections and Police Railroad Independent Candidate for County Clerk

From JCOnline:

Christopher Stried is contesting the decision passed down Tuesday from the Tippecanoe County election board to leave his name off the November ballot.  Stried, a recent Purdue University graduate, filed paperwork to run as an independent for county clerk. The board voted unanimously Tuesday to deny his petition for ballot placement because of questions over the wrong forms being used and a questionable address Stried listed as his residence.


Independent candidate signatures were due by June 30, and noon Thursday was the deadline for candidates to file a declaration of candidacy following the verification of signatures. Stried submitted more than 1,000 signatures in May, but election officials did not sign off on the paperwork.

Stried accused officials of "baseless nitpicking" and said he's being railroaded.