Longtime Tippecanoe County elections staffer Mike Smith is gearing up for what he describes as an "administrative nightmare" if his fellow Republicans' redistricting plan is passed out of the Indiana Senate and sent to Gov. Mike Braun's desk.

In Smith's 40-plus years running elections in Tippecanoe County, he's never seen the county split across two congressional districts like it is in Indiana Republicans' proposed map, which would shake up U.S. House district lines ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

The Senate is slated to vote on the redistricting bill today, a vote that will serve as the culmination of months of debate here over whether the state should draw a new congressional map that's more favorable to Republicans — and could potentially wipe out Indiana's two existing Democrat

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