Remember back in 2008 when Barack Obama carried Indiana, the Midwest’s reddest state? The margin may have been razor thin, but history was made in Indiana politics that day. But it was made possible because of an enormous turnout in Marion County, home to Indianapolis, by far the state’s largest city. That election was also the first and last time that the Republican appointee to the county election board did not block the establishment of multiple early satellite voting locations in the city. Ever since, while every one of less populous, white, suburban counties which surround Marion County/Indianapolis enjoyed anywhere from three (Hamilton County), to NINE (Boone County) conveniently located parking friendly early voting locations, the Democratic stronghold of Indianapolis has had only ONE — located smack dab in the heart of the city’s traffic clogged, limited parking, downtown business district. On May 2, two individual plaintiffs, along with the Greater Indianapolis Chapter of the NAACP and Common Cause Indiana, filed a constitutional challenge in U.S. District Court against the Indiana law - which allows a single unelected and unaccountable partisan Republican appointee to override a majority vote by the county election board to establish multiple early voting sites. And not just override a simple majority, but a majority including the board’s only ELECTED official, the county clerk. You can read the complaint here. The plaintiffs legal team is led by William Groth, last seen suing Vice President Mike Pence in a FOIA action over redacted EMAILS. Mr. Groth is representing the plaintiffs pro bono, but significant legal expenses will be associated with the trial phase of this litigation. In order to raise the necessary funds, plaintiffs are turning to a very promising new tool for democratizing public interest litigation, crowdjustice.com, which you can read all about in The Washington Post. Any and all funds raised above the amount required for litigation will be used by Common Cause in furtherance of their work to create open, honest, accountable government that serves the public interest, promotes equal rights, and empowers all people to make their voices heard in the political process. In this case, many small donations by many people are more powerful than a few big donations by a few people. If you'd like to chip in, here’s how: www.crowdjustice.com/...