Inspector Gadget with Ballot Access

So I attended inspector training at the City County Building this weekend. The Clerk's office is allowing me to work as a Green since Inspector is a non-partisan office. However, I do have to offer to take both the Republican and Democrat judges with me to return ballots to election headquarters. This could be fun since my car is a two seater. Typically one of the major party judges asks the other party judge if they wish to tag along. I hear they usually don't as they're ready to get home, and results have already been announced at the precinct. They say there will be exit polling which I hear is a new thing for Indiana. Sounds like we're going to have a fun election! The Clerk's Office did say that they don't expect anyone to challenge cross-over voters, because it's constitutionally questionable if they can even do that. And only Democrats can challenge someone else voting in their Primary. Greens, Libertarians, Independents, or anyone else can't challenge.
In Indiana, you have to win 10% of the vote for secretary of state in order to conduct a Primary. A party such as the Green Party must earn 2% of the votes for secretary of state in order to have statewide ballot access. That's about 33,000 votes as of 2006. They must also gather that many signatures of registered voters in Indiana before July 3 in order to run for secretary of State in the first place. The Democratic and Republican Legislature slyly tightened ballot access laws after Libertarians gained ballot access in 1996, moving back the deadline before the July 4 holiday and increasing the number of required signatures. The Libertarians have held onto ballot access since they achieved it in '96. In Marion County, home of Indianapolis, you need to gather 3975 signatures to run for a county wide office. I'm thinking Greens need to start looking now for a candidate for Mayor of Indianapolis in 2011!
You can always be a write-in candidate for any office in Indiana, however you have to file before June 30 to run in the November General Election. Since the Green Party Convention isn't until July 10, this poses another problem. And there's a good chance that unless the write-in position wins the majority of the votes, they won't even be counted. Marion and St. Joe(South Bend) County didn't count votes in 2006 for Bill Stant's candidacy for Secretary of State.
When I voted in early voting, they printed out my ballot directly in front of me at the Clerk's office. If we can produce ballots so quickly, why do we need such tight controls over ballot access? There was room for 8 candidates in the Democratic Primary for the 7th Congressional District. Why can't there be room for Green candidates of General Election ballots?