Election watchdogs release report on 2008 election and Coleman-Franken recount

Is Minnesota’s election process faulty?

Not at all, according to a Minnesota election watchdog group that monitored last winter’s recount. In fact the group, Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota (CEIMN), reported last week that the election process went smoothly.

The CEIMN report — “Eyes on the Vote Count: Non-partisan Observer Reports of Minnesota’s 2008 Audit and Recount” — is available at www.ceimn.org.

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Reforms to Minnesota's ballot rules pushed back to next year

...Here's how Ritchie described the situation: "The procedure for sending out 300,000 absentee ballots to 4,000 polling places to be processed by 30,000 mostly volunteer election officials at the end of the day after 3 million voters walked through the door — when you say it out loud, that's crazy."

After the election, Ritchie solicited suggestions for repairs from city, county and township election officials. Their ideas were incorporated in the Legislature's major election reform bill of the session. 

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