Campaign Tech

DFL Party sample ballot mailings that were supposed to arrive Friday or Saturday still had not reached some Minneapolis mailboxes as of Monday. Minneapolis DFL chair Dan McConnell says the party has been working with the postal service to locate undelivered sample ballots and get them to their destinations by today, Election Day.

Politics in Minnesota has posted a lovely new infographic chart showing DFL candidates for governor and the endorsements they’ve earned.

A handful of financial reports from Minneapolis political committees and candidates remain as imaginary as the just-pretend primary election that was supposed to make them mandatory by Sept. 8.

Although Minneapolis held no primary election this year, candidates for city office still had to file “pre-primary” campaign-finance reports under a new ordinance passed this summer. Yet for two weeks after the Sept. 8 deadline, confusion and other delays kept a couple dozen candidate and political committee reports from reaching the public.

Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s announced plans to axe state refunds for political contributions of $50 or less has set off an email stampede as candidates urge donors to give before the program dies July 1.

Norm Coleman went beyond “the Ethernet” to tell conservatives they must cultivate “grass e-roots” to reach young people who “don’t buy 8-tracks.” Complete video after the jump. 

With more and more papers — including these nine — calling for Norm Coleman to concede the U.S. Senate race, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee wants to capitalize on what its hopes is growing voter disenchantment with the drawn-out affair. The DSCC is seeking signatures on a petition for Coleman to step down and, [...]

Gov. Tim Pawlenty unveiled his new Twitter home page only yesterday. Then why does the color scheme suggest it was designed for a Soviet socialist in the 1920s? (After the jump is Aleksandr Rodchenko’s cover for the 1927 book, “Materialization of the Fantastic” — not a bad campaign slogan for Pawlenty ‘12 actually.)

They’re wearing riot gear in London and they’re talking recounts in New York. It’s all so St. Paul, last fall.

Norm Coleman’s campaign has said it has “a high degree of confidence” that late January’s exposure of an unprotected donor database didn’t result in the loss of sensitive data. This week’s news that Wikileaks.org had obtained the 4.3 gigabyte database casts doubt on that statement — and so does Bruce Schneier, the locally based and internationally renowned security expert who calls the claim “complete and utter bullshit.”