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2010 Indiana elections

January 01, 1970

Elections were held in Indiana on Tuesday, November 2, 2010. Primary elections were held on May 4, 2010.

Indiana elections, 2010
← 2008 November 2, 2010 2012 →
Turnout41.26%

Election information edit

Turnout edit

Turnout in the primaries was 20.86%, with 892,403 ballots cast.[1]

Turnout in the general election was 41.26%, with 1,786,213 ballots cast.[2]

Federal edit

United States Senate edit

Main article: 2010 United States Senate election in Indiana
See also: 2010 United States Senate elections

On February 15, 2010, incumbent Senator Evan Bayh announced that he would not seek reelection. This shocked the Democratic base,[who?] which had expected Bayh to seek a third term in the Senate and had thus not fielded any other candidates. On May 15, the executive committee of the Indiana Democratic Party announced that Representative Brad Ellsworth would be the party's nominee for Senator.[3] Dan Coats, the winner of the five-way Republican primary election, was Ellsworth's main competitor in the race, along with Libertarian Rebecca Sink-Burris, and two independent candidates in the general election.[4][5][6] During the campaign, Ellsworth attacked Coats' record as a lobbyist, while Coats branded Ellsworth as a puppet of President Obama and then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. On election day, Coats won 54.4% of the vote to Ellsworth's 40%. Rebecca Sink-Burris received 5.4%.

United States House of Representatives edit

Main article: 2010 United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana
See also: 2010 United States House of Representatives elections

All of Indiana's nine seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 2010. In the United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana, 2008, Democrats had won five of Indiana's nine seats in the House, but public dissatisfaction with Democratic President Obama, combined with the birth of the Tea Party movement,[citation needed] led Republicans to win back two of these seats, giving them six seats to the Democrats' three.

State edit

Secretary of State edit

2010 Indiana Secretary of State election
 
← 2006 November 2, 2010 2014 →
Turnout39.49%[2][7]
 
Nominee Charles P. White Vop Osili Mike Wherry
Party Republican Democratic Libertarian
Popular vote 976,810 632,129 100,795
Percentage 57.13% 36.97% 5.90%
 
County results
White:      40-50%      50-60%      60-70%     70-80%
Osili:      50-60%
Secretary of State before election

Todd Rokita
Republican

Elected Secretary of State

Charles P. White
Republican

Incumbent Republican Todd Rokita (R) was term-limited and could not run for reelection. Candidates to replace Rokita included Democrat Vop Osili,[8] Republican Charlie White,[9] and Libertarian Mike Wherry.[10] At the time, no Democrat had won a Secretary of State election in 20 years,[11] and only three Democrats had won the office since 1964.[12]

Olisi was a first-time candidate for office.[13][14] He was an architect from Indianapolis.[14][15] Olisi defeated Tom McKenna to win the Democratic nomination for Secretary of State at the state's Democratic Party Convention in Indianapolis, where Olisi's name was placed into nomination by Tom Henry.[15] Tom McKenna, Olisi's opponent for the Democratic nomination, was a private attorney and a deputy prosecutor who had previously served in positions under governors Evan Bayh, Frank O'Bannon, and Joe Kernan, including as the head of the former Indiana Department of Commerce, an administrative judge law for the Indiana Department of Labor, and Kernan's chief of staff.[15]

Olisi promised to connect new businesses with state economic development programs and with companies that might be interested in their services.[16] Olisi promised to support exploring efforts to modernize the voting process, including looking at online voter registration, longer voting hours, more early voting locations and no-excuse absentee voting.[15] He voiced opposition to Indiana's voter identification law, arguing that it disenfranchised between 40,000 and 200,000 Indiana voters.[16] Olisi's campaign placed an emphasis on job-creation.[17][18]

White promised to defend Indiana's voter ID law to ensure, "fair and accurate elections.”[12] However, questions were raised about whether White had falsified his driver's license and residency, and therefore voted illegally, committing voter fraud[12][19]

One important facet of the Secretary of State's position was that, as chief elections officer, they would decide control of the Indiana House in the instance it were to be split 50-50.[15]

Until September, the race had been seen as safely Republican.[19] By October it was seen as a "tossup.[19]

In what was seen to be shaping up as a Republican wave election, Osili hoped he could attract ticket splitting voters.[20]

Endorsements edit

Vop Osili (D)
Organizations
Newspapers
  • Fort Wayne Journal Gazette[23]

Polls edit

Poll source Date(s)
administered 		Sample
size 		Margin of
error 		Charles P.
White 		Vop
Osili 		Mike
Wherry 		Undecided
WISH-TV[12][19] Early October – – 39% 29% 5% 26%

Results edit

General election results[7]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Charles P. White 976,810 57.13%
Democratic Vop Osili 632,129 36.97%
Libertarian Mike Wherry 100,795 5.90%
Total votes 1,709,734

White won the election with 57% of the vote, but was soon charged with voter fraud.[24] White was removed from office on February 4, 2012, after a jury convicted him on six felony counts including perjury, theft and voter fraud.[25] A ruling by Judge Louis Rosenberg had found that since White had violated election law, and was therefore ineligible to run, the Recount Commission should remove White from office and declare Osili as the winner by default.[26] This decision was reversed. Ultimately, however, the courts ruled that, instead, Governor Mitch Daniels would be able to fill the vacancy created by White's removal from office.

Treasurer edit

Main article: 2010 Indiana State Treasurer election
Indiana State Treasurer election, 2010
 
← 2006 November 2, 2010 2014 →
Turnout38.96%[2][7]
     
Nominee Richard Mourdock Pete Buttigieg
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote 1,053,527 633,243
Percentage 62.5% 37.5%
 
County results
Mourdock:      50-60%      60-70%      70-80%      80-90%
Buttigieg:      50-60%
Treasurer before election

Richard Mourdock
Republican

Elected Treasurer

Richard Mourdock
Republican

Incumbent Republican Treasurer Richard Mourdock ran for reelection.[27] His Democratic opponent was Pete Buttigieg.[28]

Democrat Buttigieg was considered a long-shot.[29][30] Buttigieg was a political newcomer, a first-time candidate, and had never held public office,[13][30] even proclaiming on his campaign website, "I'm a businessman who has never run for office before, but I have the education, experience and energy to lend a hand at this critical time in our state’s history."[31] Buttigieg also lacked name recognition.[30]

A main issue of contention was Mourdock's having invested $43 million of state pension funds and other state funds in Chrysler junk bonds, and having subsequently taken legal action tookin an attempt to stop Chrysler's bankruptcy plan (including the Chrysler-Fiat merger) from taking effect,[30][32][33][34][35][36][37] Buttigieg criticized Mourdock both of these actions.[30][33] Mourdock defended both actions[38][33][39]

Buttigieg urged Mourdock to hold a debate with him.[40][41][42] This was to no avail, ultimately.

Mourdock's candidacy was seen as benefiting from running in a very Republican-favorable election cycle and from being in a Republican-leaning state, making the strong favorite to win.[43] In what was seen to be shaping up as a Republican wave election, Buttigieg hoped he could attract ticket splitting voters.[20]

Endorsements edit

Pete Buttigieg (D)
Organizations
  • AFL–CIO[21]
  • Indiana State Teachers Association[22]
  • United Automobile Workers[44]
    • United Automobile Workers Citizenship and Legislative Committee[45]
    • United Automobile Workers Region 3 Victory Fund.[45]
Newspapers

Result edit

Ahead of the election, the race was projected as leaning in Mourdock's favor.[49][50]

Mourdock won a second term as treasurer with 62% of the vote.

Mourdock was the state's top vote-getter, receiving a greater number of votes than any other Indiana candidate in the 2010 elections.[51][52]

General election results[7]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Richard Mourdock (incumbent) 1,053,527 62.46%
Democratic Pete Buttigieg 633,243 37.54%
Total votes 1,686,770

Auditor edit

Indiana State Auditor election, 2010
 
← 2006 November 2, 2010 2014 →
Turnout39.04%[2][7]
 
Nominee Tim Berry Sam Locke
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote 986,301 625,630
Percentage 58.36% 37.02%
 
County results
Berry:      40-50%      50-60%      60-70%      70-80%
Locke:      40-50%      50-60%
Auditor before election

Tim Berry
Republican

Elected Auditor

Tim Berry
Republican

Incumbent Republican Auditor Tim Berry ran for reelection.[53] He faced Democrat Sam Locke [54] and Libertarian Eric Knipe in the general election.[55] At the time, no Democrat had won a State Auditor election in 28 years.[11]

Locke was a first-time candidate for office.[13][14] He was a former United States Air Force officer[56] and a current non-profit consultant from Floyds Knobs.[14][15] He was unchallenged for the Democratic nomination.[15]

Locke pledged that, if elected, he would direct more state contracts to Indiana-based businesses.[57] Locke promised to find ways to save the state money.[15][16][18] Locke pledged to closely analyze state finances and attack wasteful spending.[17] He also promised to audit automatic payments made by the state to ensure that duplicate payments were not being made.[17] He also expressed an interest in making state transactions available and searchable in an online system.[17] Locke's campaign placed an emphasis on job-creation.[17][18][58] Locke promised that he would implement a more vigorous accounts payable and contract audit process.[58][59] He also promised to advocate for "top-down government reform", promising to advocate for consolidation of the agencies involved in financial planning at the state level.[58] He pledged to increase the usage of electronic records, phasing out the use of microfiche for record keeping.[58] He pledged to increase the accessibility of public information.[58] He also pledged that he would collaborate with other state officials to more accurately project the state's finances, arguing that a more "proactive approach" would negate the need for spending cuts proposed by the administration of Governor Mitch Daniels.[58] Locke also proposed implementing third-party recovery audits.[59] He promised to use the Auditor's office to cut "wasteful spending".[60]

Endorsements edit

Sam Locke (D)
Organizations
Tim Berry (R)
Newspapers
  • Fort Wayne Journal Gazette[23]

Results edit

Berry won reelection with 58% of the vote to Locke's 37%.

General election results[7]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Tim Berry 986,301 58.36%
Democratic Sam Locke 625,630 37.02%
Libertarian Eric Knipe 78,004 4.62%
Total votes 1,689,935

State Senate edit

25 seats in the Indiana Senate were up for election in 2010, a majority of which were won by the Republicans.

State House of Representatives edit

All 100 seats in the Indiana House of Representatives were up for election in 2010. A large majority of these were seized by the Republicans, giving them legislative dominance, but not enough to meet quorum without Democratic attendance.[citation needed]

Judicial positions edit

Multiple judicial positions were up for election in 2010.[61]

Ballot measures edit

One statewide ballot measure was certified:

  1. Add a property tax cap amendment to the Indiana Constitution[62]

The measure passed at the polls, with 28% of voters against the proposition.

Local edit

Many elections for county offices were also held on November 2, 2010.

References edit

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External links edit

  • at the Indiana Secretary of State
  • at Project Vote Smart
  • at Pollster.com
  • campaign finance data from OpenSecrets
  • Indiana 2010 campaign finance data from Follow the Money

January 01, 1970
2010, indiana, elections, elections, were, held, indiana, tuesday, november, 2010, primary, elections, were, held, 2010, indiana, elections, 2010, 2008, november, 2010, 2012, turnout41, contents, election, information, turnout, federal, united, states, senate,. Elections were held in Indiana on Tuesday November 2 2010 Primary elections were held on May 4 2010 Indiana elections 2010 2008 November 2 2010 2012 Turnout41 26 Contents 1 Election information 1 1 Turnout 2 Federal 2 1 United States Senate 2 2 United States House of Representatives 3 State 3 1 Secretary of State 3 1 1 Endorsements 3 1 2 Polls 3 1 3 Results 3 2 Treasurer 3 2 1 Endorsements 3 2 2 Result 3 3 Auditor 3 3 1 Endorsements 3 3 2 Results 3 4 State Senate 3 5 State House of Representatives 3 6 Judicial positions 3 7 Ballot measures 4 Local 5 References 6 External linksElection information editTurnout edit Turnout in the primaries was 20 86 with 892 403 ballots cast 1 Turnout in the general election was 41 26 with 1 786 213 ballots cast 2 Federal editUnited States Senate edit Main article 2010 United States Senate election in Indiana See also 2010 United States Senate elections On February 15 2010 incumbent Senator Evan Bayh announced that he would not seek reelection This shocked the Democratic base who which had expected Bayh to seek a third term in the Senate and had thus not fielded any other candidates On May 15 the executive committee of the Indiana Democratic Party announced that Representative Brad Ellsworth would be the party s nominee for Senator 3 Dan Coats the winner of the five way Republican primary election was Ellsworth s main competitor in the race along with Libertarian Rebecca Sink Burris and two independent candidates in the general election 4 5 6 During the campaign Ellsworth attacked Coats record as a lobbyist while Coats branded Ellsworth as a puppet of President Obama and then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi On election day Coats won 54 4 of the vote to Ellsworth s 40 Rebecca Sink Burris received 5 4 United States House of Representatives edit Main article 2010 United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana See also 2010 United States House of Representatives elections All of Indiana s nine seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 2010 In the United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana 2008 Democrats had won five of Indiana s nine seats in the House but public dissatisfaction with Democratic President Obama combined with the birth of the Tea Party movement citation needed led Republicans to win back two of these seats giving them six seats to the Democrats three State editSecretary of State edit 2010 Indiana Secretary of State election nbsp 2006 November 2 2010 2014 Turnout39 49 2 7 Nominee Charles P White Vop Osili Mike Wherry Party Republican Democratic Libertarian Popular vote 976 810 632 129 100 795 Percentage 57 13 36 97 5 90 nbsp County resultsWhite 40 50 50 60 60 70 70 80 Osili 50 60 Secretary of State before election Todd Rokita Republican Elected Secretary of State Charles P White Republican Incumbent Republican Todd Rokita R was term limited and could not run for reelection Candidates to replace Rokita included Democrat Vop Osili 8 Republican Charlie White 9 and Libertarian Mike Wherry 10 At the time no Democrat had won a Secretary of State election in 20 years 11 and only three Democrats had won the office since 1964 12 Olisi was a first time candidate for office 13 14 He was an architect from Indianapolis 14 15 Olisi defeated Tom McKenna to win the Democratic nomination for Secretary of State at the state s Democratic Party Convention in Indianapolis where Olisi s name was placed into nomination by Tom Henry 15 Tom McKenna Olisi s opponent for the Democratic nomination was a private attorney and a deputy prosecutor who had previously served in positions under governors Evan Bayh Frank O Bannon and Joe Kernan including as the head of the former Indiana Department of Commerce an administrative judge law for the Indiana Department of Labor and Kernan s chief of staff 15 Olisi promised to connect new businesses with state economic development programs and with companies that might be interested in their services 16 Olisi promised to support exploring efforts to modernize the voting process including looking at online voter registration longer voting hours more early voting locations and no excuse absentee voting 15 He voiced opposition to Indiana s voter identification law arguing that it disenfranchised between 40 000 and 200 000 Indiana voters 16 Olisi s campaign placed an emphasis on job creation 17 18 White promised to defend Indiana s voter ID law to ensure fair and accurate elections 12 However questions were raised about whether White had falsified his driver s license and residency and therefore voted illegally committing voter fraud 12 19 One important facet of the Secretary of State s position was that as chief elections officer they would decide control of the Indiana House in the instance it were to be split 50 50 15 Until September the race had been seen as safely Republican 19 By October it was seen as a tossup 19 In what was seen to be shaping up as a Republican wave election Osili hoped he could attract ticket splitting voters 20 Endorsements edit Vop Osili D Organizations AFL CIO 21 Indiana State Teachers Association 22 Newspapers Fort Wayne Journal Gazette 23 Polls edit Poll source Date s administered Samplesize Margin oferror Charles P White VopOsili MikeWherry Undecided WISH TV 12 19 Early October 39 29 5 26 Results edit General election results 7 Party Candidate Votes Republican Charles P White 976 810 57 13 Democratic Vop Osili 632 129 36 97 Libertarian Mike Wherry 100 795 5 90 Total votes 1 709 734 White won the election with 57 of the vote but was soon charged with voter fraud 24 White was removed from office on February 4 2012 after a jury convicted him on six felony counts including perjury theft and voter fraud 25 A ruling by Judge Louis Rosenberg had found that since White had violated election law and was therefore ineligible to run the Recount Commission should remove White from office and declare Osili as the winner by default 26 This decision was reversed Ultimately however the courts ruled that instead Governor Mitch Daniels would be able to fill the vacancy created by White s removal from office Treasurer edit Main article 2010 Indiana State Treasurer election Indiana State Treasurer election 2010 nbsp 2006 November 2 2010 2014 Turnout38 96 2 7 nbsp nbsp Nominee Richard Mourdock Pete Buttigieg Party Republican Democratic Popular vote 1 053 527 633 243 Percentage 62 5 37 5 nbsp County results Mourdock 50 60 60 70 70 80 80 90 Buttigieg 50 60 Treasurer before election Richard Mourdock Republican Elected Treasurer Richard Mourdock Republican Incumbent Republican Treasurer Richard Mourdock ran for reelection 27 His Democratic opponent was Pete Buttigieg 28 Democrat Buttigieg was considered a long shot 29 30 Buttigieg was a political newcomer a first time candidate and had never held public office 13 30 even proclaiming on his campaign website I m a businessman who has never run for office before but I have the education experience and energy to lend a hand at this critical time in our state s history 31 Buttigieg also lacked name recognition 30 A main issue of contention was Mourdock s having invested 43 million of state pension funds and other state funds in Chrysler junk bonds and having subsequently taken legal action tookin an attempt to stop Chrysler s bankruptcy plan including the Chrysler Fiat merger from taking effect 30 32 33 34 35 36 37 Buttigieg criticized Mourdock both of these actions 30 33 Mourdock defended both actions 38 33 39 Buttigieg urged Mourdock to hold a debate with him 40 41 42 This was to no avail ultimately Mourdock s candidacy was seen as benefiting from running in a very Republican favorable election cycle and from being in a Republican leaning state making the strong favorite to win 43 In what was seen to be shaping up as a Republican wave election Buttigieg hoped he could attract ticket splitting voters 20 Endorsements edit Pete Buttigieg D Organizations AFL CIO 21 Indiana State Teachers Association 22 United Automobile Workers 44 United Automobile Workers Citizenship and Legislative Committee 45 United Automobile Workers Region 3 Victory Fund 45 Newspapers Fort Wayne Journal Gazette 23 Indiana Daily Student 46 South Bend Tribune 47 The Times of Northwest Indiana 48 Result edit Ahead of the election the race was projected as leaning in Mourdock s favor 49 50 Mourdock won a second term as treasurer with 62 of the vote Mourdock was the state s top vote getter receiving a greater number of votes than any other Indiana candidate in the 2010 elections 51 52 General election results 7 Party Candidate Votes Republican Richard Mourdock incumbent 1 053 527 62 46 Democratic Pete Buttigieg 633 243 37 54 Total votes 1 686 770 Auditor edit Indiana State Auditor election 2010 nbsp 2006 November 2 2010 2014 Turnout39 04 2 7 Nominee Tim Berry Sam Locke Party Republican Democratic Popular vote 986 301 625 630 Percentage 58 36 37 02 nbsp County resultsBerry 40 50 50 60 60 70 70 80 Locke 40 50 50 60 Auditor before election Tim Berry Republican Elected Auditor Tim Berry Republican Incumbent Republican Auditor Tim Berry ran for reelection 53 He faced Democrat Sam Locke 54 and Libertarian Eric Knipe in the general election 55 At the time no Democrat had won a State Auditor election in 28 years 11 Locke was a first time candidate for office 13 14 He was a former United States Air Force officer 56 and a current non profit consultant from Floyds Knobs 14 15 He was unchallenged for the Democratic nomination 15 Locke pledged that if elected he would direct more state contracts to Indiana based businesses 57 Locke promised to find ways to save the state money 15 16 18 Locke pledged to closely analyze state finances and attack wasteful spending 17 He also promised to audit automatic payments made by the state to ensure that duplicate payments were not being made 17 He also expressed an interest in making state transactions available and searchable in an online system 17 Locke s campaign placed an emphasis on job creation 17 18 58 Locke promised that he would implement a more vigorous accounts payable and contract audit process 58 59 He also promised to advocate for top down government reform promising to advocate for consolidation of the agencies involved in financial planning at the state level 58 He pledged to increase the usage of electronic records phasing out the use of microfiche for record keeping 58 He pledged to increase the accessibility of public information 58 He also pledged that he would collaborate with other state officials to more accurately project the state s finances arguing that a more proactive approach would negate the need for spending cuts proposed by the administration of Governor Mitch Daniels 58 Locke also proposed implementing third party recovery audits 59 He promised to use the Auditor s office to cut wasteful spending 60 Endorsements edit Sam Locke D Organizations AFL CIO 21 Indiana State Teachers Association 22 Tim Berry R Newspapers Fort Wayne Journal Gazette 23 Results edit Berry won reelection with 58 of the vote to Locke s 37 General election results 7 Party Candidate Votes Republican Tim Berry 986 301 58 36 Democratic Sam Locke 625 630 37 02 Libertarian Eric Knipe 78 004 4 62 Total votes 1 689 935 State Senate edit 25 seats in the Indiana Senate were up for election in 2010 a majority of which were won by the Republicans State House of Representatives edit All 100 seats in the Indiana House of Representatives were up for election in 2010 A large majority of these were seized by the Republicans giving them legislative dominance but not enough to meet quorum without Democratic attendance citation needed Judicial positions edit Multiple judicial positions were up for election in 2010 61 Ballot measures edit One statewide ballot measure was certified Add a property tax cap amendment to the Indiana Constitution 62 The measure passed at the polls with 28 of voters against the proposition Local editMany elections for county offices were also held on November 2 2010 References edit 2010 Primary Election Tuesday May 4 2010 Primary Election Turnout and Registration PDF Indiana Secretary of State Retrieved May 10 2020 a b c d 2010 General Election Tuesday November 2 2010 General Election Turnout and Registration PDF Indiana Secretary of State Retrieved May 10 2020 Dems make Ellsworth official pick to face Coats Associated Press May 15 2010 Dan Coats for Indiana Coatsforindiana com Archived from the original on August 31 2010 Retrieved August 21 2010 Brad Ellsworth Ellsworth for Indiana U S Senate Campaign Ellsworthforindiana2010 com Retrieved August 21 2010 Elect Rebecca Sink Burris to United States Senate Electrebecca com April 13 2010 Retrieved August 21 2010 a b c d e f 2010 Indiana Election Results PDF Indiana gov Voter Portal Archived from the original PDF on April 12 2019 Retrieved May 2 2019 Vop Osili for Indiana Secretary of State Democrat Votevop com June 26 2010 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Tribune of Northwest Indiana October 17 2010 dead link Holtz Maribeth May 6 2010 State Treasurer candidate speaks in Marion Marion Chronicle Tribune NEWS BUTTIGIEG RENEWS CALL FOR DEBATES Pete for Indiana October 6 2010 Retrieved September 20 2019 News IN WAKE OF MOURDOCK OUTBURST BUTTIGIEG CALLS FOR A FULL DEBATE Pete for Indiana September 29 2010 Retrieved September 20 2019 NEWS MOURDOCK FINDS TIME FOR BIZARRE VISIT TO OPPONENT S HOME BUT NOT DEBATES Pete for Indiana October 21 2010 Retrieved September 21 2019 Colwell Jack October 3 2010 Standing firmly on bad ground South Bend Tribune Hodge John September 29 2010 Treasurer candidate counts UAW retirees as strong supporters New Castle Courier Times a b Indiana UAW CAP endorses Pete Buttigieg for state treasurer Pete for Indiana June 24 2010 Retrieved September 19 2019 Pete Buttigieg for State Treasurer Indiana Daily Student November 1 2010 OUR OPINION BUTTIGIEG FOR TREASURER South Bend Tribune October 29 2010 EDITORIAL We endorse Buttigieg for state treasurer The Times of Northwest Indiana October 29 2010 Howey Brian A October 14 2010 Rokita warns candidates on ISTA campaign funds PDF Howey Politics Indiana 16 10 Retrieved September 20 2019 Boyce Brian October 30 2010 Democrats stage rally to encourage supporters to keep fighting Tribune Star Retrieved September 21 2019 Marcus Morton J November 3 2010 Self employment gap endangers state future PDF Howey Politics Indiana 16 14 Retrieved September 20 2019 Hayden Maureen November 9 2010 State s top vote getter credits Chrysler bankruptcy fight for election win News and Tribune Retrieved September 20 2019 Berry for Indiana Berry for Indiana Archived from the original on October 22 2010 Retrieved August 21 2010 Sam Locke for Indiana State Auditor Lockeforauditor com Archived from the original on July 11 2010 Retrieved August 21 2010 Eric Knipe for Indiana State Auditor 2010 wordpress com Archived from the original on July 25 2010 Retrieved December 16 2016 Boyce Brian October 30 2010 Democrats stage rally to encourage supporters to keep fighting Tribune Star Retrieved September 19 2019 Candidates visit Lafayette WLFI TV June 30 2010 a b c d e f Issues and Concerns Locke for Auditor Archived from the original on October 22 2010 a b Locke to unveil four major policy initiatives proposes deeper payable audits blogspot com Locke for Auditor Archived from the original on October 23 2010 Locke announces more innovations by targeting state waste blogspot com Locke for Indiana Archived from the original on October 23 2010 Retrieved January 2 2020 Indiana judicial elections 2010 Judgepedia Archived from the original on July 22 2010 Retrieved December 19 2016 Indiana 2010 ballot measures Ballotpedia Archived from the original on August 6 2010 Retrieved December 19 2016 External links editThis section s use of external links may not follow Wikipedia s policies or guidelines Please improve this article by removing excessive or inappropriate external links 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