Andy Downs sent this out today to all IPFW email addresses.
From: Andrew Downs <downsa@ipfw.edu>
Date: Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 6:43 AM
Subject: Registering to vote
To: Andrew Downs <downsa@ipfw.edu>Three things to remember for the October 6th Voter Registration Deadline
The October 6th voter registration deadline is quickly approaching. Are you registered? Remember these three things:
Register to Vote: Voters wishing to register for the first time in Indiana must do so on or before the October 6th, 2008 deadline.
Additionally, voters who have moved or changed their name must update their information by the same deadline.Anyone not registered to vote may register in person at the county voter registration office, county clerk*s office, or at any Bureau of Motor Vehicles license branch. Voters may also obtain a registration form online at the Secretary of State*s Web page, www.IndianaVoters.com. These forms can be filled out and mailed in if post-marked on or before the October 6th deadline.
Under Indiana law, each person who applies to register to vote must state the address of their “permanent residence.” For some, but not all college students, their permanent residence will be the address that they traveled from to attend school. For other college students, who have no intention of returning to that address, their permanent residence will be in the community where they are attending school. A person can only have one permanent residence under Indiana law. However, where a person’s permanent residence is located will depend on the facts of their situation and their intentions.
Photo ID: Voters registered in Indiana will be required to show an ID issued by either the state of Indiana or the United States government. If you currently hold an out-of-state ID, but consider Indiana your permanent address, you can surrender it and opt to receive an Indiana ID card (free of charge) or Driver*s License. Please visit www.photoID.in.gov for more information.
Absentee Voting: Any registered voter who will be absent from his or her home precinct on Election Day may vote by absentee ballot. You may visit the county election board office in the county where you are registered to vote in-person absentee starting October 6th and continuing until Noon, Monday November 3, 2008 (the day before Election Day). Qualifying voters may also submit an application for a mail-in absentee ballot by completing form ABS-1 available online at www.IndianaVoters.com or at your county election office on or before October 27, 2008.
More Information: Hoosiers can check their voter registration status and look up county-specific contact information by visiting www.IndianaVoters.com or by calling the Hoosier Voter Hotline, 1-866-IN-1-VOTE (1-866-461-8683).
The person that forwarded it to me had these thoughts
“I was wondering under what capacity he was working that gave him the authority to send out the email.
If he is chairmen of some authorized Get Out the Vote group on behalf of the University I can see him having access to this, but as Prof. Joe Blow he shouldn’t have such authority nor access to email lists. To me he is just any old political pundit.”
AWB
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Last year around this time the College Republicans also had a voter registration drive on campus with other politically affliated groups. Professor Downs went out of his way to help get everything set up in advance, as well as call the local Media for us. If the number of people interested in College Republicans this school year is any indication, then the email that he sent out will definitely be an advantage for the local GOP. We have had a ton of interest from students to join the IPFW CRs who are excited about the current election year and who are turned off to teachings of many of the Liberal Professors on campus.
I don’t see anything more than an effort to help inform us college students that were already intending on voting. Most people who registered to vote last school year during the primary have a different address now, than they do this school year.
Tony Mitson
IPFW College Republican Chairman
I’m an IPFW student and did not receive this e-mail, so it obviously didn’t go to every student.
I too can echo Tony\’s statements. Since you didn\’t get the email Andrew, I\’m assuming that it may have been sent to only students affiliated with student organizations or some other type of mass email in which names were attached because I got the email as well. Granted, I co-founded the CR group along with Tony, so that may be the reason I got the email. Nevertheless, I can assure you that the email Professor Downs sent out will help me in the near future as I have had at least three Republican/Conservative students approach me within the last week about registering to vote. Now instead of trying to explain things verbally to them, I can simply forward them this email. While we all know where Professor Downs stands on most political issues compared to many Republicans like Tony and I, I can assure you that in and out of the classroom he is a class act to all ideologies and beliefs.
My daughter is also a student at IPFW and never recieved this e-mail. My wife and I are both enrolled in classes at IPFW and have valid IPFW e-mail accounts and neither of us received the e-mail.
Maybe someone could ask Mr. Downs who was selected and why?