Plenty of Minnesotans will follow today's oral arguments with
considerable impatience and frustration. They'll wonder why several
thousand of the last election's 290,000 absentee ballots landed in
legal limbo. They'll ask whether a surer system could be devised to
make absentee ballots less prone to administrative errors and legal
second-guessing.
Several county elections officials on the receiving end of those
questions answered them at a Humphrey Institute conference last week,
with abundant frustration of their own. Yes, they said, we know how to
improve absentee balloting to minimize this problem in the future. We
worked persistently with both parties in the Legislature this year to
get a reasonable remedy through the House and Senate. We want to move
the processing of absentee ballots out of precincts and into county
offices, to improve uniformity and relieve pressure on already busy
election judges.
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