St. Joseph County Election Board

St. Joseph County Circuit Court Judge John Broden ruled Thursday that Indiana statutes don't require a political candidate to be in good standing with their party, and that overruling the county election board in Republican Dan Schaetzle's case would be an abuse of the court's discretion.

St. Joseph Circuit Judge John Broden has ruled that the county election board acts as a state, rather than a county, entity, so someone appealing its ruling in court can still receive a fair trial in a county court.

Griffin Nate, communications director for Republican congressman Rudy Yakym, argues that the St. Joseph County Election Board and clerk's officer are biased against their case, so they it moved to Elkhart County for court review of the board's 3-0 vote to let Republican St. Joseph County Council member Dan Schaetzle run as a Republican in the May primary election.

Republicans Griffin Nate and Jackie Horvath, the St. Joseph County party chair, petitioned the county Election Board to keep Republican County Council member Dan Schaetzle off the May primary election ballot because the district and state GOP have ruled he's not in good standing with the party.

Republican St. Joseph County Council member Dan Schaetzle has vowed to run for re-election in the May primary, despite Republicans saying he's not in good standing with the party.

Benjamin Dallas thought he'd come up with a clever workaround but the election board's two voting members, both attorneys, voted to remove him from the November ballot

Clerk Amy Rolfes tried to fire the supervisors for time-saving measure of signing ballot envelopes ahead of time

It was unclear Friday why St. Joseph County Clerk Amy Rolfes wants both parties' early voting supervisors out

The St. Joseph County Election Board overturned a challenge that would have blocked Bruce Mitchell, Jr. from running as a Democrat in the May Primary.

A lawsuit filed by the Indiana and St. Joseph County Republican parties against the Democratic members of the St. Joseph County election board has changed court venues.