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Committee reviews bipartisan county elections administrator bill; bill laid over for possible omnibus inclusion
Summary
Senate File 2232, a bipartisan package of administrative changes drafted with county input, was presented to the Senate Elections Committee on March 13 and laid over for possible inclusion in an omnibus bill.
Senate File 2232, a bipartisan package of administrative changes drafted with county input, was presented to the Minnesota Senate Elections Committee on March 13 and laid over for possible inclusion in an omnibus bill.
State Senator Mark Horan introduced the measure and Michael Stolberger, director of property and environmental resources for Blue Earth County, testified for the Minnesota Association of County Officials (MAKO), describing a series of technical changes counties say will improve election administration and voter clarity.
Stolberger said the bill would allow combined polling places to share electronic rosters when precincts are officially combined, change the deadline on absentee ballot applications submitted by mail or online to a week before the election (with certain exceptions), remove party-balance requirements on county ballot boards for county-only special elections, and adjust candidate-filing and sample-ballot requirements. He told the committee the changes were intended…
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