House to Consider Emergency Election Powers for Secretary Simon

On Tuesday, April 7th, beginning at 9:45 AM, the Government Operations Committee of the Minnesota House of Representatives will conduct a remote meeting to debate an as yet unnumbered bill authored by Rep. Dehn. The bill authorizes the secretary of state to issue emergency orders related to the conduct of an election during “certain peacetime emergencies.”

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The secretary of state has already signaled the sort of emergency orders he’d issue in a number of recent news pieces and editorials (example). Reducing the number of polling places, centralizing ballot tabulation, expanded no-excuse absentee voting (sometimes called “early voting”), moving to statewide mail balloting, as examples.

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