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.…
Al Franken’s campaign claims it now holds a 22-vote lead in the U.S. Senate race with 138,000 votes left to be recounted. This figure contrasts with other tabulations, based on numbers from the Minnesota Secretary of State’s Office, that shows Coleman maintaining a 303-vote lead.
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.
In recent weeks, the thoughts of the left-lib blogosphere have turned back to fears of voter harassment and disenfranchisement schemes of the sort that made headlines in 2000 and 2004. The discussion is driven in part by a story that our sister site the Michigan Messenger broke on September 10, when reporter Eartha Jane Melzer wrote that one GOP county chair there was “planning to use a list of foreclosed homes to block people from voting in the upcoming election as part of the state GOP’s effort to challenge some voters on Election Day.”
Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie says election laws here–specifically, the state’s same-day registration policy, along with a few key reforms enacted after conflicts over partisan voter challenges in the state’s 2004 election–make it much more difficult for partisans to game the system by constructing specious grounds for residency challenges or by mounting wholesale objections that serve to slow polling lines and discourage would-be voters.
We still haven’t heard the reasoning behind the Supreme Court’s decision in Louis H. Reiter vs. Mary Kiffmeyer, the case involving the Gutknecht petition in lieu of paying a filing fee. Buried deep within the documents the Court considered,…
The perhaps now infamous DFL lawsuit against Minnesota Secretary of State Mary Kiffmeyer alleging she improperly accepted signatures on a candidate’s petition in lieu of paying a filing fee is now over. The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled in…
Shock but not awe
“A funny thing happened to me a week ago,” writes Rep. Gil Gutknecht in an article published in the Winona Daily News, Sunday, August 20.
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