More than 200 people turned out for Pass Democratic Club 's fourth unit Dinner fundraiser at Morongo Casino Resort & Spa. Betty McMillion, the event 's vice-president and club president, credited Bowen for turnout.

A few months after taking office last year, Bowen conducted a first of its kind, examining the security of the State 's electronic voting systems amid growing concerns that the machines, and thus the vote, could be altered.

In August, it decertified the state 's voting machines, but allows their use conditional welcome to disabled voters.

Supreme Court The ruled Monday that states may require voters to produce photo identification without violating their constitutional rights, laws validating Republican-inspired voter identification.

In a 6-3 ruling broken, the court upheld the strict identification of the photo of Indiana , as Democrats and civil rights groups said would discourage voters from poor, elderly and minority votes built. Its support has indicated that it was necessary to discourage fraud.