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- By Minnesota Secretary of State's OfficeMay 13, 2026Minnesota voters serving in the military or living overseas can still vote from anywhere in the world through UOCAVA voting. UOCAVA stands for the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act. It helps eligible Minnesotans receive and return their ballots electronically while away from home. College students can use UOCAVA this fall as they study abroad. Military members, their…
- By Minnesota Secretary of State's OfficeMay 06, 2026Despite the national headlines – executive orders, court cases, proposed laws, and redistricting battles in other states – nothing has changed about how you vote in Minnesota. Your voting options, your rights, and the process remain the same. Election integrity and security remain the same. You can still register and vote early, by mail or on Election Day. And you can trust the system that’…
- By Minnesota Secretary of State's OfficeApril 22, 2026It’s fair to want our election system to be secure, we all do. The good news is that the data show it already is. According to the Heritage Foundation Election Fraud Map, from 1982– 2025 there were just three convictions for noncitizen voting in Minnesota. That’s about 0.0000057% of ballots cast. A separate study, Needles in Haystacks, by a University of St. Thomas researcher found three…
- April 08, 2026Absentee voting (or vote by mail) in Minnesota is built with multiple layers of security to protect voters and ensure every ballot is counted accurately. Here’s a quick look at the safeguards in place: Secure application and tracking: Ballots are requested through a verified application and tracked in the Statewide Voter Registration System (SVRS), allowing both voters and officials to…
- November 10, 2020To the Editor: Congratulations to the voters of Rock County. You turned out inrecord numbers to support your candidates. On the evening when Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were speaking totheir supporters in Delaware, celebrating the honor of being chosen tolead the country forward,there was also television coverage in Arizona outside the buildingwhere the votes were being counted. On one side of…
- October 27, 2020The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is considered by many to be one of the most effective pieces of civil rights legislation in our nation's history. Now as we head into the final stretch of the 2020 presidential election, it’s abundantly clear how necessary the law is. Before the Voting Rights Act was in place, several states openly and legally suppressed the votes of African-Americans and other…
- August 18, 2020To the Editor: This political season leading up to the November general election has already begun to heat up with strong emotions, accusations and charges, but also a promise of how we may begin to heal as a country. We need hope as we face challenges on many fronts: health, employment and losses that may combine to feel overwhelming at times. As we have heard many times, we’re all in this…
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