A Libertarian candidate joined the crowded race for Indiana Secretary of State.
The race against incumbent Secretary Diego Morales now has candidates from the Republican, Democratic, Independent, and Libertarian parties.
Libertarian Lauri Shillings was nominated during the party's state convention earlier this month.
Shillings, who works for the University of Indianapolis, said her platform includes protecting the integrity of elections, restoring faith in leadership, and modernizing government services.
Shillings said she doesn’t feel Morales has upheld the integrity of Indiana’s elections, pointing to his decision to hand over voter rolls to the Trump administration.
"That has a lot of privacy concerns. For me, it has information about each voter, what primary ballots they may have pulled, their location, their driver's license number and part of their social security numbers in there too," she said. "So it's easy to triangulate that information, and it's easy to misuse that kind of data in a government entity type of way."
Beyond election integrity, Shillings said one of her top priorities would be to update the state's website.
“The biggest complaint I have is with the website itself. It's very outdated, like it's built in
the early 2000s,” she said. “Trying to get forms when you need them - are they the correct forms? Are they last year's?”
The general election is November 3rd.
CORRECTION: A previous version of this story stated that Lauri Shillings would need to get roughly 37,000 signatures to appear on the ballot. Indiana’s Libertarian Party has already met a threshold of voters.
Contact Government Reporter Benjamin Thorp at bthorp@wfyi.org
