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However, those numbers aren’t being seen by the Vanderburgh County Election Office.

But in general, the Vanderburgh County election supervisor says, people are excited to vote in this election.

Since opening up early voting on the 12th, they’ve already had 700 early voters and sent out more than 2,700 ballots.

But, if you are unhappy with the Republican or Democrat running for president, you can write in a candidate and it’s fairly simple in Indiana.

“Touch the area where it says write-in,” said John Gerard, Vanderburgh County Election Office Supervisor. “And then a screen’s going to pop in that you just type the name in and you hit accept.”

Gerard says the only tricky part comes when choosing who to write in. You can’t just write-in anybody. In Indiana you can only choose from a list of candidates registered as Independent or write-ins.

TRUMP VS HILLARY – EMBARRASSMENT VS EVIL

Making Sense by Michael Reagan

Everyone knows I’m not a Trump supporter.

He’s personally embarrassing.

He has embarrassed the Republican Party.

He has embarrassed the country.

He’s right about many things. And he did much better at the second debate.

But it doesn’t matter. Unless there’s a miracle, he’s going to lose to Hillary.

He’s going to be defeated by the weakest, most unlikable, least trustable candidate the Democrats have nominated since, well, her husband.

It’s not just Hillary we’ll be stuck with for four years, by the way. It’ll be a two-fur.

We’ll also get four more years of her dirty old man, Bill, who singlehandedly did more to debase and embarrass the office of president than anyone.

America is already in big trouble. I’m 71 and I won’t live to see it, but it’s going to get worse before it gets better.

It really makes me sad to think about what’s happening to the country, or why.

Most young people — the millennial voters everyone’s trying to please — don’t have a clue what’s going wrong now because they don’t know anything about history.

They don’t know how America got to be great, or how much better off they are than their parents or grandparents — or why.

They don’t know where their great country came from, or who built it, or why immigrants came here, or why the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

For them, American history started with the iPhone, Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders promise of free college.

I was talking to my 38-year-old son the other day. He’s got a 9-month-old daughter and he’s worried about her future.

So am I.

What kind of country is she going to find after four or — God forbid — eight years of a Clinton co-presidency?

Everyone who reads this column knows how I feel about Donald Trump. Trump knows how I feel about Trump. My father in heaven knows.

I’m embarrassed. My father would be embarrassed. My mother would be embarrassed. My stepmother would be embarrassed. And rightly so.

Trump is no conservative, no Republican, no gentleman, no policy wonk, no answer to America’s prayers or needs — at home or overseas.

Trump is Trump, and always will be. He has been as embarrassing as he is now since the day he started to run.

The purists on talk radio and in the conservative movement, and the GOP establishment– the chickens who let Trump steal their party instead of their ideas — are jumping ship like rats.

Trump isn’t perfect as a human being or a Republican and never will be.

But I’m willing to be embarrassed by him for four years if that’s what it takes to stop Hillary.

America can’t afford to have her in charge for one hour.

Her bad economic ideas, her dishonesty, her corrupt politics, her slimy friends, her Supreme Court choices and her phony family’s family values will start us down a path that will lead to the destruction of the American way of life.

That scary thought far outweighs any concern — and embarrassment — I’d have voting for Donald Trump.

Palm Springs iHub Shines at SBEMP Awards

CVEP CEO Joe Wallace, who also serves as managing director of the Palm Springs iHub, and Hank McCarrick, the owner of SecoSys, one of the innovation incubator’s standout companies, took home two of the four honors bestowed Wednesday night at the second annual SBEMP Awards at the private Colony 29 estates in Palm Springs.

Presented by law firm of Slovak, Baron, Empey, Murphy, & Pinkney LLP, the event celebrates local business leaders and the impact they make across the Coachella Valley.

The Palm Springs iHub and Accelerator Campus have attracted 48 start-up companies, which in turn created almost 150 jobs, in the areas of clean energy, health and medicine, digital media, and wearable technologies.

SecoSys, which is featured in the new edition of Vision Greater Palm Springs,creates intelligent water meters to manage, control, and conserve water in real-time at commercial and residential sites. Joining Wallace (Leadership) and McCarrick (Environment) among the SBEMP honorees were Dr. Sharon Brown-Welty (Impact) of CSUSB Palm Desert Campus and Tyler and Kelly McLean (Entrepreneur) of Splash House.

Human Trafficking Victim Shares Story with IVY Tech StudentsOlivia Covington for www.theindianalawyer.com

A Lake County man cannot seek damages against another man he was involved in a bar fight with after the Indiana Court of Appeals decided Friday that the plaintiff waited too long to bring up the defendant’s default in court.

In March 2012, William Brandon was at the Buddy & Pal’s Place bar in Schererville attending a birthday party. Thomas Walker was also at the party, although the two men did not know each other.

Brandon and Walker got into an argument at some point, which was broken up by a bar employee, who escorted Walker and two women out of the bar. Once outside, Walker realized that he did not have his cell phone, and one of the women told him that Brandon had taken it. Walker then asked if he could return to the bar to retrieve his phone, and he was escorted back inside.

As he was approaching the table, Brandon stood in his way “to provoke a fight,” prompting Walker to punch him in the forehead. Brandon swung back, slipped and fell and cut his hand on a beer bottle. He was taken to a hospital and underwent surgery.

Later that month, Brandon and his wife filed suit against the bar and Walker. Walker did not file a response, so Brandon filed a motion for default judgment against Walker.  A trial court judge found that Walker was in default, at which point Walker filed a pro se letter saying that he disagreed with the charges and had been in contact with Brandon’s lawyer.

Three years later, Walker appeared in court pro se. The final instructions gave the jury the option of assigning fault in the incident based on percentages, with Brandon’s attorney urging the jury to find the bar 85 percent at fault and Walker 15 percent at fault. Instead, the jury found Brandon to be 100 percent at fault.

After the verdict, Brandon requested direction from the judge on the default that had been entered against Walker three years earlier and also filed a motion to correct error and requested a new trial. The judge denied the motion to correct error, saying Brandon did not bring up Walker’s default until after the conclusion of the trial and that Brandon had not objected to Walker’s participation in the trial.

Brandon appealed the denial of his motion to correct, arguing that because Walker had been established as liable by default, the judge should have granted a new trial on damages only. But the Indiana Court of Appeals wrote Friday that it agreed with the trial court’s judgment that Brandon’s silence on Walker’s default during the trial had waived the rights he had by virtue of the default.

“Only when the trial did not turn out the way the Brandon wanted it to turn out and the jury was excused did Brandon raise the issue of default against Walker with the trial court,” Chief Judge Nancy Vaidik wrote for the court Friday. “This was too late.”

The case is William Brandon, Jr. and Sarah Brandon v. Buddy & Pal’s III, Inc. d/b/a/ Buddy & Pal’s Place and Thomas Walker, 45A04-1511-CT-1970.