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Based on early voting, you have to think Tuesday’s turnout for the election will be much higher than normal.

Aubrey Woods reported online today at TribTown.com that it appears 10 percent of the Jackson County’s 30,208 voters would have cast early ballots by the time the absentee boards in Brownstown and Seymour closed at noon.

Nearly 59 percent of Jackson County’s eligible voters cast ballots in the last presidential, when President George W. Bush was re-elected to a second term over Democrat challenger Sen. John Kerry.

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Have you changed your clocks yet? I got a start in the kitchen awhile ago and will likely change the rest in the house around bed time, which is drawing near. (The time stamp on our blog system, by the way, is on the left coast time, where our servers are located).

I really don’t mind changing our clocks, although I’m still not sure why Indiana went through that change.

A primary argument centered on the state’s need to compete for jobs and work in a global economy. Sorry, but it we’re truly talking globally, aren’t we likely dealing in a number of time zones?

But again, I don’t mind changing our clocks twice a year. But I do wish all of the state was on Central time.

I go to work early, and in the summer it’s just too light when I need to go to bed. So I generally stay up later and get less sleep.

Oh well.

But I do wonder if incumbent Republican Mitch Daniels is wincing with the change coming later this year than normal and coinciding with the weekend just before Election Day. I’m surprised at how some people remain so bitterly upset about the time change.

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We received an e-mail recently from someone inquiring about campaign finance reports, which were due Oct. 17.

The writer was particularly interested in who was financing the campaigns of those seeking election to the Jackson County Board of Commissioners. The writer didn’t specify whether they were interested in one particular race or another.

Here’s what we found based on records turned in to the Jackson County clerk’s office at Brownstown (not all were submitted) :

In the District 1 race between Republican Jerry Hounshel and Democrat Jim Darlage, only Hounshel had filed a report as of the time reporter Aubrey Woods copied them on Tuesday (Oct. 22). Darlage had not filed the paperwork.

Hounshel reported $2,590.10 in unitemized contributions and $2,564.99 in expenditures. Those expenses covered costs for printing of signs, shirts and other materials, according to the report.

In the District 2 race, Democrat John Schafstall reported no income or expenditures, and Republican Tom Joray reported a $500 contribution from the Jackson County Republican Party and expenses of $540. The expenses covered the cost of signs, according to the report.

Final campaign finance reports are due to the clerk’s office by Dec. 31 for this year’s elections.

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Do you plan to vote early?

Or have you already voted?

Absentee or early voting started Monday in Indiana. An absentee board is located in the Jackson County Courthouse in Brownstown, and a second will open Oct. 20 at Seymour Community Center.

I know the political parties and many candidates are advocates of early voting, although I’m not sure why.

I’ve never encountered a long line on Election Day while voting in Indianapolis, Lake Village, Ark., Seymour, Elizabethtown or Bloomington, all of the places I’ve cast ballots. My first was cast at P.S. 34 on the south side of Indianapolis in the 1980 election.

If you are voting early, or already have, why? I’m just curious.

Do you think it makes sense that Indiana changed its law, allowing early voting for essentially any reason, or really for no reason at all?

If not, why? Again, I’m just curious.

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It’s too bad Vincennes University-Jasper Dean Alan Johnson balked at 9th District Republican Chairman Larry Shickles’ idea of using polygraphs when congressional candidates convene for a forum later this month in Jasper.

Think about it. Johnson could have enlisted Mark Walberg from that FOX television show, “The Moment of Truth,” for that segment of the debate.

And surely someone at the university could have rigged the polygraphs with hot wires to the seat of the pants of the three candidates, incumbent Democrat Baron Hill, Republican Mike Sodrel and Libertarian Eric Schansberg.

If they stretch the truth on their opponent’s record, the hot wire could give a slight charge. They tell a whopper, and they get a blast that could shoot them over their podium.

It would, however, be hard to imagine the contestants, excuse me, candidates, getting through 21 questions as required on the show in order to win the $500,000 top prize.

One of the best comments I’ve heard about Shickles’ proposal — other than about its absurdity — came in an e-mail from a friend who shall remain nameless.

Here’s what she wrote in an e-mail: “I can see it now … wires everywhere … and not a word spoken.”

It caused me to laugh aloud.

Shickles’ plan sounds too much like a “Saturday Night Live” skit to be taken seriously.

When Hak Haskins, editor of The Herald in Jasper, e-mailed me Wednesday morning about the letter from Shickles to his Democratic counterpart, Mike Jones, I was suspicious and assumed Hak would soon discover it was a hoax.

But it was not, I soon discovered for myself, as I started making my own calls about it.

Ryan Reger of Sodrel’s campaign first confirmed it, and then came an e-mail from Schansberg. Hill con-firmed it when questioned about it during his discussion with area business and financial leaders Wednesday afternoon in Seymour.

I guess Shickles does deserve credit, however, for making people write, read and think about the election and his man in the campaign.

I left messages with Shickles but never heard back from him. Hak tells me he interviewed the Harrison County man, however, and plans to have a follow-up story Friday. I can’t wait to see it.

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