Tuesday, October 29, 2002
Notes on the Minnesota Senate Election
Byron York's piece for National Review Online today, "The Coming Election-Lawsuit War" is must reading. It looks like the legal war in Florida, 2000, will be the model for any close election anywhere this year. With the House and Senate so closely divided, it is hard to blame either side for exhausting all its legitimate options.
York's article talks about prospective Democratic litigation over the Minnesota Senate race. Would that Minnesota Democrats were as concerned with potential vote fraud. I was astounded to learn (from an article praising the late Senator Wellstone's ground campaign) how easy it is to stuff a Minnesota ballot box on Election Day:
Minnesota has election-day voter registration: Show up at the polls with some documents establishing who you are and where you live, and you can vote. . . . Minnesota law [also] allows a registered voter to bring six unregistered ones with him or her to the polls -- and allows those six each to bring one more -- the potential for swelling student turnout, and the Wellstone vote, is considerable.
It looks like Election Day will not be the end of the 2002 election cycle, but only the beginning. Should you see or read of examples of bilingual voting abuses or errors (ideally in print), please e-mail the information to bilingualballots@englishfirst.org. And thank you in advance for your time and trouble.
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