As Ellison decries tea party ‘voter intimidation’ efforts, data shows fraud is rare

“Voter fraud. It’s a felony.” So reads the “wanted” poster–style type on new posters being distributed by Republican and tea party groups ahead of election day. What they don’t say is it’s also exceedingly rare. As Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison decries such efforts at attempts to intimidate voters, Hennepin County provides the Minnesota Independent with data that shows only .00006 percent of votes cast in 2008 were done so fraudulently.

Conservative paper’s partisan links back data requests, despite denials

The Minnesota Republic, a conservative student newspaper that filed more than a dozen data requests from state DFLers, blurs line between journalism and politics.

Minnesota Majority attacks bonding-bill Republicans

Conservative group Minnesota Majority is launching an attack on 15 Republicans who votes for a $1.1 billion bonding bill in the Minnesota Legislature. Calling them the “Forgetful Fifteen,” the group is urging GOP delegates to think twice about…

Supreme court rejects MN Majority case against Ritchie

A lawsuit filed against Secretary of State Mark Ritchie by the conservative Minnesota Majority and a handful of Republican lawmakers and activists was dismissed by the Minnesota Supreme Court on Thursday.…

Secretary of State Mark Ritchie: ‘Misrepresentation and voter initimidation will not be tolerated by this office’

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.

Secretary of State asks for investigation of alleged voter intimidation call tied to Minnesota Majority

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.

Election official: Group tied to ex-MN Secretary of State Kiffmeyer aims to ‘keep people from voting’

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.