Minnesota
Ballot Security
What Politicians Say
Though its elected officials had a good score for their response to claims about the 2020 election, it is one of several states in which a candidate for the top elections office has made baseless claims about the 2020 election.
In a fundraising email sent on the anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, Republican Secretary of State nominee Kim Crockett wrote that “just like the election itself” she felt there was a lot going on that day that was “unreported, misreported” and “rigged.”
During the state GOP convention, Crockett’s campaign showed a video depicting the Democratic Secretary of State Steve Simon as being controlled with puppet strings by Soros Fund Management Chairman George Soros, a frequent target of conspiracy theories, with the caption “Let’s wreck elections forever and ever.”
Minnesota has made only minor changes to its election laws since 2020.
Ease of Voting
A successful 2021 bill loosened state law on voter registrations, no longer requiring a driver’s license, state ID or Social Security number for voters who have not been issued one.
Ballot Security
The 2021 law also requires local elections administrators who provide mail ballot drop boxes to make them available around the clock, set up video cameras to record them, fasten or bolt them to a building or concrete and collect ballots at least once a day.
How Politicians Responded to the 2020 Election
Two of Minnesota’s four Republican US representatives objected to certification of Biden electors from Arizona and Pennsylvania. Three signed an amicus brief in support of the Texas lawsuit.