Action Alert and News Update 10/15/2026
Who Runs Minnesota’s Elections
The people checking you in and handing you a ballot are often your neighbors. Learn how training, political balance and shared responsibilities guide the local election judges who help run Minnesota’s elections.
How We Know the Count Is Accurate: A Step-by-Step Look Inside Minnesota’s Hand-Count Reviews
The checks don’t stop when the polls close. Follow Minnesota’s public hand-count reviews to see how paper ballots are compared with machine totals—and what happens when the numbers don’t match.
Built on the Rule of Law: How Constitutional Standards and Bipartisan Oversight Safeguard Minnesota Polling Places
What keeps any one person or party from controlling what happens inside a polling place? Learn how Minnesota divides election authority, requires bipartisan oversight and sets clear boundaries around sensitive election work.
Data, Checks and Balances: How Minnesota Keeps Its Voter Rolls Accurate
What happens after someone registers to vote? Learn how Minnesota uses documentation, human review, address checks and ongoing database updates to keep voter records current and identify information that needs a closer look.
More Ways to Vote, Clear Rules: How Minnesota Expands Access Within Election Law
Minnesotans have several ways to participate before and on Election Day, but each operates within defined rules. Explore how absentee voting, early voting, preregistration and other provisions expand access while maintaining eligibility requirements and procedures.
Offline and Tested: How Minnesota Secures Its Voting Equipment
A tabulator may count your ballot in seconds, but its work is surrounded by safeguards. Learn how Minnesota combines paper ballots, network restrictions, physical security and public equipment testing to make the count checkable.
Tracked from Signature to Tabulator: The Chain of Custody Behind Minnesota Absentee Voting
What happens after you return an absentee ballot? Follow its path through verification, bipartisan review, secure storage and separation from identifying information before it becomes part of the count.
Verification by the Book: Inside Minnesota’s Post-Election Hand-Count Reviews
Election-night totals aren’t the end of the count. See how Minnesota uses public hand-count reviews of randomly selected precincts to compare paper ballots with voting-system results before the election process is complete.
Paper Ballots, Offline Tabulators and Public Tests: How Minnesota Makes the Count Checkable
How do we know a voting machine counted correctly? Learn how Minnesota preserves paper ballots, limits tabulator connections and tests equipment in public to make the vote count checkable.