DFL in MN sues over absentee ballots
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DFL sues over absentee ballot issue
DFL attorney Alan Weinblatt told MPR that the party’s lawsuit argues that people who voted absentee should be able to get a new ballot under the state’s spoiled ballot provision.
The article does not cite the relevant laws, so I will have to do some digging before I can give an opinion on this. Of course, the fair thing to do is to make every effort to get new absentee ballots to all voters. Aside from cost (and possibly a badly written law), I do not see why the ballots could not be over-nighted, along with an overnight return envelope.
But we aren’t dealing with fair, we are dealing with election law.
In purely crass, political terms, I don’t think this lawsuit will hurt the DFL. After all, they are simlpy asking that absentee voters get the same choice as voters at the polls. Win or lose, they are standing up for the idea that everything should be done to ensure that everyone’s vote counts.
Of course the DFL is not “trying to ensure eveyone’s vote counts”, they are just trying to be sure the possible DFL votes count. Absentee voters did get their chance to vote, under the law, and they still can change their vote if they can make it to the polls. If they can’t, while that’s just the way life is.
Comment 10/29/2002
Yeah, as if the GOP wouldn’t be making a stink about it if the situations were reversed, right?
Comment 10/30/2002