After a First-of-its-kind Election, some Reforms are Needed

| Voting Should be easy, but Cheating Should be Hard | By Andy Cilek and Kim Crockett – We know you do not want to hear this, but the 2022 midterm elections are right around the corner. Before engaged citizens and lawmakers turn to other matters, it is worth considering the state of election integrity. Like the nation, Minnesota is […]

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Absentee Ballot Boards: Ground Zero for Minnesota Elections

| Lawsuits consolidated against Minneapolis, Duluth, and Ramsey and Olmsted Counties for illegally constituting and running absentee ballot review boards | In Minnesota this fall, as many as two million ballots will be processed by local absentee ballot boards, virtually none of which follow the laws governing staffing the boards and reviewing the ballot envelopes for legitimacy. After months of […]

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DFLers are Asking Courts to Change Voting Rules, Without the Nuisance of Legislation

By Kim Crockett Maybe you already know who you want to vote for in 2020. But given concerns about COVID-19, how will you vote? In person at the polls on Election Day? Or will you vote by absentee ballot? If you vote by absentee ballot, an increasingly popular choice even before COVID-19, you can drop your ballot off in person, […]

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Duluth Abandons Voter Protections When Examining Absentee Ballots

| Ballot boards are stacked with city insiders instead of election judges | On Thursday, July 15, 2020, the Minnesota Voters Alliance (MVA), Republican Party of Minnesota (RPM), State Senate Candidate Donna Bergstrom, and several election judges have filed a Petition for Writ of Mandamus asking the St. Louis County District Court to order the City of Duluth to follow […]

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