Elections

Minnesota Monitor will cover all of the freshest media content and breaking news to come out of this evenings Pennsylvania primary beginning at 7:30. Check in frequently to comment and contribute.

The Minneapolis City Council voted this morning on logistics for adopting instant-runoff or ranked-choice voting in the city, but the ordinance cleared without unanimous support and only after significant debate on an amendment to count mismarked ballots.

Instant runoff lets voters rank candidates in order of preference. Council member Cam Gordon introduced an amendment that would [...]

A new SurveyUSA poll shows Norm Coleman leading DFL challenger Al Franken, 51 percent to 41 percent. Coleman also came out way ahead of Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, 57-28, and Darryl Stanton, 57-27.

According to the poll, Coleman leads Franken among women, 49-44, and among independents, 48-42. The poll represents a departure from recent polls, which showed a [...]

The state of Michigan touches four of the five Great Lakes and is second only to Alaska in shoreline, with 3,288 miles. As various presidential candidates shuttle around “the Great Lakes State,” scant attention has been paid to clean water issues. Michigan’s asterisk-laden Democratic primary and diminished candidate pool has left Republicans to address traditionally [...]

From Albany to Wrenshall, school districts are asking taxpayers to renew or increase their funding levels. A total of 99 districts are seeking operational funding while an additional 26 are seeking either capital project levies or bonding authority.

Notable among the requests is Elk River School District, asking for both a $132 million bond to accommodate [...]

A well-educated seventh-grader could tell you that the Electoral College is elected through state-by-state winner-take-all elections, and whoever gets a majority of electoral votes becomes president.

Well…more or less. As it stands, Maine and Nebraska elect electors slightly differently — each congressional district sends one based on the winner in that district, and the statewide winner [...]

Cross-posted at Vox Verax.
Last week Minneapolis voters overwhelming approved instant runoff voting for future city elections. Instant runoff voting, or IRV, allows voters to rank their candidate preferences on their ballots. The idea is that if no single candidate receives a majority of 1st choice votes, then the candidate receiving the least number of votes [...]

Cross-posted at Vox Verax.

A revolution? Not quite. But the first paragraph of an editorial from a southeastern Minnesota newspaper chain speaks volumes about the change that has overcome the American electorate, at least as represented by a small-town newspaper publisher in a chiefly rural area in the upper Midwest.

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9:30 PM:  Left off here for a while – about to be interviewed at the UBS Forum…I think.  Our producer had to run upstairs and was a bit out of breath.

6:50 PM:  Early returns continue to stream in from across the country.  According to multiple sources with whom I’ve spoken over the course of [...]

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