Thursday, October 31, 2002
Ruling Issued on Minnesota Absentee Ballots
[Posted earlier today without proper attibution of the Kiffmeyer item]
Interesting tidbit:
Democratic Party lawyer Alan Weinblatt had no immediate comment on the ruling. Weinblatt had asked the court to make replacement absentee ballots available by any means - Web site, fax, even e-mail. But the court order only authorized election officials to use traditional mail.
Imagine the possibilities for mischief if anyone had a mind to download an absentee ballot form, make copies and fill them out with some names out of the telephone book.
Oddly enough, as the Opinion Journal's "Best of the Web Today" notes, the Minneapolis Tribune editorialized on October 20th (five days before Senator Wellstone's death) that Minnesota's Secretary of State, Mary Kiffmeyer, "has . . . an unwanted fixation on preventing election fraud. . . . Her proposal to require that voters show an ID card in order to vote would disenfranchise a few and inconvenience many." The Tribune endorsed the Green party nominee, Andrew Koebrick, and praised his plans "to establish a computer network that would allow voters to vote securely at any precinct in the state, not just their home precinct, on Election Day."
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