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Clean Elections MN Action Alert and Update – 9/8/22
Alaska registers a first for Ranked Choice Voting
Clean Elections MN Action Alert and Update – 9/1/22
Top Issue? Threats to democracy
Ken Peterson: Minnesota’s voting system is practically fraud-proof
Voter fraud occurred here at the rate of roughly one-quarter a person’s chance of being struck by lightning.
Will Kathy Olson still get to vote?
She’s a hypothetical but representative Minnesotan. We present her as an illustration of how proposed voting restrictions will affect many people — maybe even someone you think is OK.
Conversation about voter suppression with Keesha Gaskins-Nathan
https://tinyurl.com/3r3kmxmrJoin us on September 13th for a virtual conversation on voter suppression with Keesha Gaskins-Nathan. Register: https://tinyurl.com/3r3kmxmr As the Rockefeller Brothers Fund director for Democratic Practice US and the Racial Justice...
Aug 8 Weekly News Update: 57 Years of Voting Rights!
Happy 57th anniversary this week to the Voting Rights Act! Celebrate by voting in Tuesday's primary and encouraging friends and neighbors to do the same. The update for the week of August 8 includes actions you can take; a report about August 3rd Senate Hearings on...
We Choose Us to build multiracial democracy
More than 100 friends of democracy gathered on July 23 from 6:30 - 8:00 pm at Columbia Park for the launch of "We Choose Us," a collaborative campaign mobilizing to build a multiracial democracy. Clean Elections Minnesota is part of this exciting new campaign along...
Mary Hartnett Becomes Clean Elections Minnesota’s Executive Director
Clean Elections Minnesota is very pleased to announce that Mary Hartnett will become our first Executive Director, effective February 14, 2022. With a strong background as a nonprofit executive, Mary brings a wealth of leadership experience to the position. She has...
Protecting Our Vote Webinar
To start 2022 right, Clean Elections MN sponsored, along with a host of co-hosts, a live Zoom and Facebook event, "Protecting Our Vote" January 12. Special guests Senator Amy Klobuchar and Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon responded to questions crafted from...
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