INDIANAPOLIS, March 15 (UPI) -- Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., plans to appeal an election board decision that he and his wife, Charlene, are ineligible to vote in their former home precinct.
The Marion County Election Board, voting 2-1 along party lines, ruled Thursday that according to Indiana law the Lugars had abandoned the residence in their former Wayne Township precinct. Lugar, who was elected to the Senate in 1977, sold his Indianapolis home shortly after taking office but has the address on his Indiana driver's license, USA Today said. He and his wife have a home in Virginia.