Voting

To paraphrase a friend: to make Instant Runoff Voting sexy, you have to add, well, sex. That seemed to be the thinking behind the recent Better Ballot Campaign fundraiser that featured a burlesque revue, booze, and tours of the Hennepin History Museum’s show Hips, Pips, and Strips: A Revealing History of Burlesque in Hennepin County. [...]

“Thank you all for thinking this down-ballot race is important!” So introduced Nancy Gaschott, wife and campaign treasurer of DFL-endorsed Secretary of State candidate Mark Ritchie at a fundraiser last night. But for a relatively low-profile office, the night featured a who’s-who of progressive politics–and ideas that transcend the nuts and bolts of the office’s [...]

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 it’s nearest point is about an hour and a half by car from the state’s population, [...]

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 their own. This occurs when they feel their votes will have more weight in another [...]

ES&S, the voting system software company that Secretary of State Mary Kiffmeyer has touted as a way to make Minnesota’s elections more efficient, has agreed to a $750,000 settlement with the state of Indiana for election foul-ups.