More on the Mitch Harper Situation

The Blogmeister is getting some backchannel information on the Mitch Harper situation posted yesterday.  Apparently at least one high level Democrat (Mitch is a Republican) looked into the situation and found, that while Mitch (and his wife) voted in the “General Election” of 2oo3, both missed the municipal primaries of that year.

While that may seem to conflict with the post of the Blogmeister here and Mitch on his blog, the answer is simple.  The “General Election” was, in fact, a Special Election for a referendum on taxes for the Southwest Allen County Schools, the school district in which Harper lives.

Look folks, this isn’t hard.  Mitch moved to his current home in 2003.  At that time, it was an unannexed portion of Fort Wayne…or more correctly, in Allen County, but not in Fort Wayne city limits.  Since he lived in the Southwest Allen County School District, he could vote in the referendum.  However, because he did not live in municipal Fort Wayne, he could not vote in the municipal elections.  When his home was annexed by Fort Wayne in 2006, it became part of the already existing 4th City Council District.  Therefore, he could not vote for his own seat until the primary election after January 1, 2006.