Posted on 11/03/2020 10:55:42 AM PST by Red Badger
By Monday night the state's early voting tally was 62% of 2016's total turnout.
ST PAUL, Minnesota — The people who run Minnesota's elections would love to lead the nation again in voter turnout percentage, even in the middle of a pandemic. And, they're off to a good start.
As of Monday night, 1,839,710 votes had been cast by Minnesotans. That includes people who chose to vote absentee in person or by mail, and those who live in areas of the state where elections are conducted only via mail.
That number is roughly 62% of all votes in the last presidential election. In 2016, a record 2,968,281 Minnesotans voted, which was 78% of eligible voters. And in opinion polls conducted in late September 61% of voters said they still planned to vote in person on Election Day.
Nearly 300,000 absentee ballots requested by voters haven't been mailed back of delivered by hand as of Monday night. Due to a court ruling calling into question the validity of ballots received after Tuesday night, voters have been asked to refrain from putting them in the mail at this point.
The options that remain as of Election Eve is to deliver the absentee ballot by hand to your city or county elections office -- the address on the outer ballot envelope -- or to deliver them by hand to a staffed drop-off location.
Secretary of State Steve Simon said those who've already mailed their ballot but haven't been able to confirm the ballot was received and accepted may override that ballot by voting in person.
There will be a few faithless electors, like last time.
Pence has long lacked a decent delivery style.I Uninspiring even with a crafted speech . I like the guy but have not seen him as a winning candidate— but that can be corrected.
“There will be a few faithless electors, like last time.”
Yes, that would be a major consideration if it’s close. A lot of electors might get very rich if they switch from Trump to Biden. At the very least, their reward would be that the Democrats allow them & their families to continue to live.
I am worried about the wnd and 3rd ring suburbs though.
Rosemount, Woodbury, Coon Rapids, etc are a few that come to mind.
Trump will have to hold his own in those areas to offset the Dem advantage in Minneapolis-St Paul and the first ring suburbs like Richfield, Roseville, Oakdale, etc.
The Supreme Court put the kaibosh on faithless electors in a recent case. One of the few they’ve gotten right recently.
Generally it’s true that heavy turnout equals lazy Democrat slugs finding some excuse to pull themselves off the couch and go vote.
But that has never factored in a POTUS who was holding huge rallies and generating this much excitement amongst Republicans.
Orange County has always been very red but they lost nearly all their House seats last election.
Thank you!!
In big liberal cities, sure. In the other 90% of the country you can bet it favors Republicans, especially this year.
Drudge is the internet version of Bill Kristol...Jackasses...
Hannity said that Republican areas of MN are at historical pace...
Truth... My Precinct in MN is a Deep Red stronghold.
Well, so far. We have a few new housing developments going in that will probably tip us here in a few years.
>>He had kind of ticked me off by losing control of the messaging of the task force.<<
He has been Don Strock to Trump’s Dan Marino. Starting tomorrow, Pence will be taking a lot more snaps.
(how is THAT for an analogy? LOL)
I live in Scottsdale, AZ now.
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