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Feb 14 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
A Senate committee has voted to preserve IN #absenteeballot rules allowing you to vote absentee if you'll be out of town on #ElectionDay. The panel killed a House-added provision which would have limited absentee voting to people out of town for the entire early voting period.
Sen. Greg Walker (R-Columbus) says the "out of town" limitation is unenforceable anyway and does nothing to increase security in an already secure #absenteevoting system. He says if more counties adopt Marion County's ballot-tracking tech, he'd back no-excuse absentee voting. 2/3
Committee stripped the House provision on a unanimous voice vote. Once the full bill passes the Senate, the House will have to decide whether to accept the changes or negotiate a final version. 3/3

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2,839 new Indiana #coronavirus cases, with 9.4% of today's batch of tests positive. The 7-day positivity rate, which runs a week behind, continues a two-week plunge to 18.3%, still in @StateHealthIN's high-risk zone but lowest since Jan 3. Cases are down 60% from last week.
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All 92 counties are now rated red (high risk) on @StateHealthIN's weekly risk score.
16,502 new Indiana #coronavirus cases, 2nd-highest total ever, but 3rd week-over-week drop in 5 days.

24.3% of today's batch of tests were positive. The 7-day positivity rate, which runs a week behind, holds steady at a record 30%. It's the 1st time since Dec 26 it hasn't risen.
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Debate begins in Indiana House on final vote on bill limiting employer #vaccinemandates.
House Majority Leader Matt Lehman: "This bill is not about the vaccine itself; it's about the people affected" by mandates. #INLegis
Lehman points to nurses who testified they fear getting fired for being unvaxed, after working for 9 months of pandemic before #vaccine became available.

Last week's #SCOTUS ruling means those nurses aren't affected by this bill; they're still required to get vaxed or get fired.
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710 Hoosiers are in ICU with #COVID19, one fewer than yesterday and the fourth straight drop, but a jump in non-#COVID patients drops the number of open Indiana ICU beds to 218. Overall, 3,460 Hoosiers are hospitalized with COVID, 97 more than yesterday after a three-day decline.
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Jan 17
9,870 new Indiana #COVID19 cases, with 28.3% of today's batch of tests positive...but two of the last three days have been lower than the week before, for the first time since Dec 27. Cases for the week are still up 8% from a week before.
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Indiana records 7,000 new #coronavirus cases for the first time -- and blows right through that milestone to top 8,000 for the first time, with 8,451, nearly 1,800 above the previous high. The state also sets its 11th #COVID hospitalization record in 12 days, with 2,634.
25 newly reported #coronavirus deaths bring Indiana's death toll to 4,638. Counting presumptive #COVID19 deaths, the total death toll is 4,888.
Indiana set new highs with nearly 69K new tests and nearly 26K tests of 1st-time patients, but positivity rates were 12.3% for all tests (about the same as yesterday, down slightly) and 32.5% for 1st-time tests (highest in four days).
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