A House committee dramatically scaled back a controversial bill Thursday that would have imposed new voter identification requirements on absentee ballot applications.

Under proposed legislation Hoosier voters would have to include either their driver's license number or the last four digits of their Social Security number when they apply for an absentee ballot.

Indiana ranks among the worst states in the country for voter turnout. And improving that is the goal of a new, nonpartisan organization: HOPE -- Hoosiers Organized, People Energized.

Voter advocacy organizations are creating a "shadow" redistricting commission -- an independent group to provide the public with what they say is a fairer alternative than the new legislative district maps lawmakers will create in the 2021 session.

A group of Hoosiers who are blind say Indiana's vote-by-mail system doesn't allow them to vote privately and independently at home. And they're suing the state over it.

Long voting lines on Election Day aren't unusual or necessarily a sign of that something nefarious is afoot.

The tempestuous election of 2020 has been rife with predictions of confusion and cataclysm, with warnings that a contested battle could last well into December. It has happened before. Take 1800, for example.

Hoosiers are used to finding out which candidates won and lost on election night, or pretty close to it. But that likely won't be the case this year for some races.

There's been a lot more focus this election year on poll watchers -- particularly after President Donald Trump urged his supporters to "go into the polls and watch very carefully." But in Indiana -- like other states -- poll watchers are a very defined role in state election law.

Gov. Eric Holcomb insists Hoosiers are safe at polling places across the state amid the ongoing pandemic. That's despite a record new number of COVID-19 cases, long lines at the polls and some county clerks who refuse to follow Holcomb's mask-wearing order.