Mary Kiffmeyer

In a video released today by the UpTake, Secretary of State Mark Ritchie outlined allegations of voter intimidation by Minnesota Majority. Ritchie revealed during a press conference on Wednesday that someone working for Minnesota Majority president Jeff Davis was phoning voters and posing as a representative of the Secretary of State’s office. We wrote about the group’s tactics last week, exposing how their attempts at questioning the integrity of Minnesota’s voter rolls was, according to Deputy Secretary of State Jim Gelbmann, one of the ways the conservative organization was trying to suppress votes in Democrat-leaning counties.

Learn more about the lawsuit here, and watch the video by the UpTake of the press conference and Minnesota Majority’s ties to former SoS Mary Kiffmeyer after the jump.

Minnesota Majority, a conservative group that was until recently headed by Republican activist and former Secretary of State Mary Kiffmeyer, is under fire by current Secretary of State Mark Ritchie for alleged voter intimidation. Ritchie announced today that he has asked prosecutors to look into a phone call placed to a St. Paul man on behalf of the group.

Former Secretary of State Mary Kiffmeyer may not be in the business of supervising elections anymore, but it doesn’t mean she and her friends have abandoned their old habits.

The “traditional values” organization of which Kiffmeyer is the executive director, Minnesota Majority, has been poking around Minnesota’s voter-registration file, and in a pair of letters to Secretary of State Mark Ritchie’s office over the past week, MN Majority president Jeff Davis claims to have unearthed thousands of suspicious registrations in the state’s voter records.

Last weekend former Minnesota Secretary of State Mary Kiffmeyer got the endorsement nod from House District 16B Republicans to replace embattled Rep. Mark Olson, whose conviction for domestic assault got him booted from the House Republican caucus. If they were looking to replace Olson with someone less controversial, Kiffmeyer may have not been the best [...]

Former Secretary of State Mary Kiffmeyer announced this weekend that she will run for the Minnesota House seat currently occupied by Mark Olson, who was convicted last summer of domestic assault.

Olson, of Big Lake, was later expelled from the House Republican caucus, and now may run as an independent for re-election.

WCCO cites Kiffmeyer, also of [...]

A local Minnesota youth ministry believes that the pope is the devil, that attention deficit disorder, depression and alcoholism are myths, and that their organization is involved in a spiritual war for the soul of America. 

Support for those positions drew many Republican luminaries to the Minneapolis Hyatt on Saturday to honor You Can Run But [...]

In an article about Democratic Secretary of State Mark Ritchie’s proposed automatic voter registration legislation, Star Tribune writer Dane Smith noted Republican concerns about Ritchie’s partisanship. In the article, Smith quoted a Republican Party official who charged that Ritchie had crossed a line by speaking to a liberal organization. The official also said Ritchie’s record [...]

Experienced at working with international institutions and  grassroots activists alike, Mark Ritchie has been known to use an “insider-outsider strategy.” It’s an apt descriptor: A onetime chicken farmer and co-op organizer, he’s addressed the UN General Assembly on commodities and sustainable development. A speaker at the first-ever World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and [...]

For the as long as I can remember Mary Kiffmeyer has been claiming that she was born in Pierz, Minnesota.  According to her website:
Mary was born December 29th, 1946 in Pierz, a small Minnesota town south of Brainerd.

This information also appears on the CWTC site and her Wikipedia entry.  But it doesn’t appear on the [...]

In every election, the top-of-the-ballot races get most of the attention.  But in the aftermath of election fiascos in the last two presidential elections, there has been a renewed focus across the country on the “other” elected officials – those charged with carrying out elections and watching over the government’s conduct.

The role of Secretary of [...]