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…
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 —…
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…
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…
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…
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“Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.”
A version of this quote has been attributed to Stalin, an attribution that has been hotly debated. Thom Hartmann, among others, has said that…
An effort to improve voter confidence in the results of electronic machine tallies is underway via the Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota and the League of Women Voters. Last year, Minnesota became one of 13 states to require a random…
Last night about 10 p.m. I confidently told my wife, “Mike Erlandson’s won in the 5th.”
“Oh,” she said, not really caring one way or the other. You see, we live in the 1st Congressional District of Minnesota, which at…
There’s bound to be some crossover voting in today’s Minnesota primaries, but how much won’t be known till the final tallies are in. Crossover voting is when members of one political party vote in the primary of another instead of…
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