Posted on 06/26/2021 8:40:27 AM PDT by cuz1961
ST PAUL, Minn — Key Minnesota lawmakers have agreed in principle to setting up new standards for absentee ballot drop boxes, including 24-hour video surveillance of those ballot receptacles.
House Democrats and Senate Republicans agreed that ballot drop boxes need to be protected from tampering, or abuse through ballot harvesting schemes. A compromise version of the State Government Finance bill will set new standards and require video surveillance.
POLITICS Minnesota lawmakers to set new rules for ballot drop boxes House and Senate negotiators have agreed on a set of new rules for absentee ballot drop boxes, including 24-hour video surveillance of those containers.
Author: John Croman Published: 2:19 AM CDT June 25, 2021 Updated: 2:19 AM CDT June 25, 2021 ST PAUL, Minn — Key Minnesota lawmakers have agreed in principle to setting up new standards for absentee ballot drop boxes, including 24-hour video surveillance of those ballot receptacles.
House Democrats and Senate Republicans agreed that ballot drop boxes need to be protected from tampering, or abuse through ballot harvesting schemes. A compromise version of the State Government Finance bill will set new standards and require video surveillance.
Until now, state law has lacked a lot of specifics when it came to ballot drop boxes.
"The law basically said, 'Hey, here are these things called drop boxes. They exist and you can have them.' But there wasn't a lot of meat on the bone. So we decided to change that," Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon told KARE.
And while most drop boxes in the Twin Cities metro area were surrounded by election staff members, in some areas of the state the boxes were in courthouse lobbies without intense monitoring.
"If you have an unattended drop box, one that's meant to be set up for 24-7 kind of use, there should be some eyes on it -- literally some eyes, either people's eyes or camera eyes."
Minnesotans enthusiastically embraced new styles of voting in the 2020 election.
According to the Secretary of State's Office 58% of voters statewide cast early absentee ballots, either by mail, in person or by dropping them off at an early voting center.…
Granted the COVID pandemic played a huge role in that statistic, but people have clearly warmed up to the idea of avoiding the Election Day crowds.
"The other way to put that is only 42% voted the old fashion way by going to a particular place, a polling place on Election Day," Simon told KARE.
"The growth in those ways of voting will continue here in Minnesota."
That's why Simon and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle pressed for standardized rules for drop boxes and security measures.
The same set of House and Senate negotiators ended up tossing other proposed changes to elections law because they couldn't reach bipartisan agreement.
w driver's licenses.
Currently motor voter registration in Minnesota is an opt-in system, and the elections bill passed by the House would've made it an opt-out situation.
"There’s bad stuff from my viewpoint that didn’t make it in and that’s good," Simon remarked.
"But there’s good stuff that didn’t make it in, and that’s bad. So, it’s the ultimate compromise."
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I looked for a news article about it couldn't find one.
I wonder if it was full of pre filled fraudulent ballots. . I wonder if those ballots ended up prefilling the Drop box's that were paid for by nefarious entities and then delivered across the states.
I wonder what good the video surveillance would do if all the other things I wondered about were true. .
I wonder why that missing trailer was never reported found by the FBI or media?
I wonder if the FBI was too busy investigating garage pulls at a nascar track.
I wonder what determines priorities of some .
I wonder.
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Fat lot of good video does, we have video of them pulling cases of ballots from under covered tables and repeatedly running the same ballots through the machines in Fulton County after they threw the observers out and nothing was done or will be done about it.
There should be ZERO ballot drop boxes. Its allowing fraud.
Would someone please inform me on what is so important about drop boxes? Can’t people just drop their ballots in the US mail?
I wonder if the cameras will be the same ones that are no longer in use by the New York correctional center. They had a habit of not working whenever major crimes like assisted-suicide was taking place.
wear mask and hoodie, drop lit zippo, walk away
Ballot drop boxes? Just put it in a blue postal box . Though in reality there is no need for their to be that many absentee ballots in the first place. If anything just expand the hours that voting can take place and hire more people to work there so there are no waiting lines.
US Mail is almost as bad, but if you go to a post office to mail anything, you are recorded. No recording on drop boxes = can stuff with no possibility of getting caught.
Just advertise free air jordans In the rich white part of town
Will this DOJ investigate this scheme? Will they bring a lawsuit against the state of Delaware for having stricter voting laws than Georgia’s?
No drop boxes. If you cannot get off your butt and vote in person on election day I do not want your vote.
Why would you have an absentee drop box? Drop it off down the street at the voting station.
Yup. Anyone who votes for this crap should be fired for stupid.
New ballot box rules:
Box with open slot on top for ballots will be on a BLM member’s lap with Black Panther on either side as security.
Any improper voting will be dealt with quickly.
Kids vote here meme....
Our votes for Trump counted just exactly that much.
That’s why Biden won.
No ID?
No vote!
WTF Reason is there for a drop box. Whatever happened to a mail box? Anyone in an urban or suburban setting is never less than a mile or two from a post office & even closer to a stand alone post office box. People in rural areas can just let their rural route carrier pick up the ballot by RAISING the mailbox flag! All mail in ballots are pre-paid postage.
Just another way to cheat!
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