64 Votes.

Nearly every time Tiffany has run into someone over the past seven months, they ask, “so, are you going to run again?”

She didn’t have an answer. Until today.

Today she will say, “Yes, I’m running.”

I first got to know Tiffany in July of 2024 when I was making TikTok videos about Democrats running for statehouse in Indiana. Although I mistakenly called her “Tina” in my first video, she quickly forgave me and we struck up a friendship.

She impressed me from the beginning and the campaign team she assembled was top notch.

Leading up to November 5, 2024, she knew she had a chance to unseat Republican incumbent Becky Cash, but it would take 10 days after the election to know the results. The suspense was killing us.

It came down to just 64 votes. Tiffany lost.

It was the closest race in the whole state in 2024 and as the team started to peel back the layers of what happened, some troubling details started to emerge.

“Voter fraud” is a concept that has grown in popularity over the past several years. However, instances of deliberate fraud, the intent to deceive and sway an election, are very rare. Even according to the incredibly conservative Heritage Foundation, via their fraud tracker, there are around 3,000 confirmed cases of intentional fraud since the early 1980s.

Fraud is rare, but incompetence and human error are common and that is what began to emerge in the weeks that followed the election.

We talk about “an election” in a way that makes it sound as if it is a singular event, but it is not. Although it is happening on the same day, there are technically over 100,000 different elections happening across the US. Here in Indiana, we have 92 counties running 92 different election systems. Within each of those counties, there are several polling locations. Within each of those polling locations, there are several poll workers. Plenty of room for mistakes to happen.

Hendricks and Boone are the two counties that make up Indiana Statehouse District 25 and although these two counties are right next to each other, the differences in how the 2024 election was conducted are startling. Boone’s election seemed to run smoothly, but Hendricks was riddled with mistakes. The errors are plentiful, but the biggest one, the one that raises the most frustrating question, is the number of absentee ballots that were uncounted because Hendricks mailed them to voters without the required security signatures. Those voters did their civic duty, mailed their completed ballot back to Hendricks County and their vote was not counted.

Not fraud. Not malice. Just incompetence.

Were there at least 65 votes for Tiffany Stoner that were thrown in the trash? No one will ever know.

The loss was rough for Tiffany. She has been very honest about that. However, as she started contemplating her next move, she realized that an election was the only thing she lost. She racked up the wins in 2024. Wins like Tiffany earning more votes than Kamala Harris, more votes than Jennifer McCormick; she was the first Democrat to win Boone County in this race; she improved the margin for Democrats by 2.6 points compared to 2022.

Tiffany Stoner has spent the last several months feeling like her mission wasn’t accomplished. So she is setting out to rack up more wins, more connections, more votes.

Tonight in Indianapolis, Tiffany Stoner will officially launch her 2026 campaign for the Indiana Statehouse and I am so honored to be in attendance.

Being a Democrat in Indiana is an uphill battle, but with candidates like Tiffany Stoner, there is so much hope.

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