Minnesota Independent

Gubernatorial recount to start Nov. 29

By Andy Birkey | 11.16.10 | 11:30 am

With a recount looking more and more likely, Secretary of State Mark Ritchie has laid out a plan for the canvasing operations. The recount of the governor’s race is set for Nov. 29, which will follow the Canvassing Board’s decision on whether a recount will happen. That board is scheduled to meet on Nov. 23. Leading up to those meetings, counties are prepping for the recount and dealing with an enormous number of data practices request from the campaigns. DFLer Mark Dayton leads Republican Tom Emmer by more than 8,700 votes.

Leading up to recount, GOP files suit against two counties

By Andy Birkey | 11.15.10 | 9:30 am

The Republican Party of Minnesota and Tom Emmer for Governor filed a civil suit against Pine and St. Louis counties on Friday afternoon saying the two have been too slow in getting requested documents related to the election.

St. Louis, Olmsted counties outshine metro for Web site transparency

By Chris Steller | 04.08.09 | 3:12 pm

The sun shines more brightly in St. Louis and Olmsted counties than in any of the seven counties in the Twin Cities metropolitan area, according to a recently completed nationwide evaluation of county Web sites by a group that…

100-vote spike for Franken: Human, not mechanical, error

By Paul Schmelzer | 11.07.08 | 3:55 pm

Norm Coleman’s campaign says a 100-vote increase for Al Franken overnight is suspicious and has filed a data practices act request to see paperwork related to voting in Mountain Iron, the St. Louis County town that saw Franken votes go from 406 to 506. MinnPost’s David Brauer called up that county’s director of elections, Paul Tynjala, to see what happened. Because St. Louis County is some 7,000 square miles, election officials called in their results election night and followed up the next day by delivering their voting machine tapes. It was the initial call, not the machine tape, that got the vote tally wrong — human, not mechanical, error.