MIAMI COUNTY EMPLOYEE ACCUSED OF TURNING AWAY VOTERS

A northern Indiana clerk says one of her employees will face discipline after about 30 people left a polling site during Tuesday’s primary when they were told they likely wouldn’t be able to vote. Miami County Clerk of the Courts Tawna Leffel-Sands says the polling site at the county courthouse in Peru was about to close at 6 p.m. when the worker told some people in line they probably wouldn’t be able to vote. She says about 30 people in the line of some 130 voters walked away. Leffel-Sands says she learned what had happened and brought some of them back to vote.