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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Ind. Law - Potentially interesting election dispute
Ben Zion Hershberg of the Louisville Courier Journal has a story today that begins:
Jeffersonville's Board of Ethics made plans last night to investigate whether the campaign of Mayor Rob Waiz violated the city's ethics ordinance when it bought several Internet addresses likely to be used by the campaign of former Mayor Tom Galligan.Election cybersquatting? But that apparently is not the issue in this investigation. Instead:
Ethics Board member Rachel Browne said she wants to know if Roger Hardy, Jeffersonville's director of information technology and the Waiz campaign's computer consultant, bought the site names on city time or using city computers. Either action would violate the ethics ordinance.The Waiz re-election campaign acknowledged last month that it had bought three Internet addresses, or domain names likely to be used by the Galligan campaign to limit his ability to communicate with voters.
The names are tomgalligan, galliganformayor and tomgalliganformayor.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on March 14, 2007 09:38 AM
Posted to Indiana Law