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Todd Rokita

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Republican politician who has served as Indiana's attorney general since January 2021. He was Indiana's secretary of state from 2003 to 2011 and represented Indiana's 4th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2019.

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DI has documented statements by Todd Rokita on Election Security and Voting Rights. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.

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Statements by Todd Rokita

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Todd Rokita

Role at the time: Indiana Attorney General, in a statement released October 26

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Statement summary

Indiana's attorney general welcomed DOJ's plan to send election monitors to polling sites in Marion and Lake counties, saying he wants elections run securely so voters can trust the results.

“To help make that happen, I welcome the Department of Justice sending election monitors into Indiana on November 3.”
Open source (opens in a new tab)ELECTION OBSERVERS: Federal monitors heading to Indiana welcomed by AG Rokita but decried by othersArticle, opening paragraphs quoting Rokita's statement
Why we used this label

Relative to DOJ's plan to send election monitors to every state, Rokita welcomes the monitors coming to Indiana as a way to make elections secure, which supports the deployment.

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