Please consider volunteering with CEI as well for the upcoming post election audit. This is where the public is welcome to observe each county as they do their own audit of random precincts to compare the paper ballot vote totals with the number they came up with from the voting machines. It also monitors how the ballots are secured and handled. This occurs at a date set by each county approximately a week or two after the election, so everyone volunteering themselves silly for their respective causes and candidates will have plenty of time to rest up before this takes place. Training with CEI is available, but contact them soon if you are interested!
We are fortunate to have more transparency than some states do, and to have this available to us in the state of Minnesota to guarantee to us honest elections. My personal opinion is that this kind of volunteering does more to keep our elections honest than anything done by the voter fraud fanatics. That's part of why I decided to sign on to be an election judge this year in my precinct, and after the election, to be an election audit observer. - DG
 If you received this from a friend and would like to subscribe, please follow this link. Become an e-news subscriber In the News CEIMN research footnoted in Gov. Carlson and Gov. Dayton ‘vote no’ ad.(video) Minnesota Public Radio, what we don’t know about the voter ID amendment. (video) Let's keep it a clean Constitution, Jack Davies, former state senator, drafter of the form and structure rewrite of the Minnesota Constitution ratified in 1974 Resources: CEIMN report: The Cost of the Proposed Elections Amendment. League of Women Voters Chart: The Constitutional Amendment on Elections. What It Says, What It Really Means. CEIMN website, Proposed Amendment, with quiz at the bottom. Find us on Facebook! | It’s going to be a close one, isn’t it? Poll after poll shows that the talking point that 80% of voters support a voter ID is an old one. It’s now down to the low 50s. I’m sure that it will be painful for me and for you we lose by a few hundred votes. If that happens, we’ll wonder if there was just one more thing we could have done—just one more friend to call….just one more door to knock on. We have a week. Let’s keep up our work. No, let’s increase our work. Our Vote Our Future will be phone banking. If you go to this website, you can sign up. If you’re not in the Twin Cities you can also sign up with get out the vote (GOTV) work at that same website. If the times and locations for the phone banking don’t work for you, please consider focusing on your own networks. You may have friends who oppose the elections amendment but may—for one reason or another—decide not to vote at all. Make sure that they vote. If you have friends who say a voter photo ID is not a big deal, show them the entire amendment language and tell them that putting this sort of language into our Constitution is a big deal. If your friends say they are not registered to vote, remind them that we have Election Day Registration. In fact, show them this website mnvotes.org so they can learn where they vote and what they need to register on Election Day. Now is the time to prevent this poorly written amendment from being embedded into our Constitution. Don’t expect the work to be done by someone else—you are the person who can help stop this. Thank you for your continued dedication to this crucial issue! Kathy Bonnifield Executive Director Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota www.ceimn.org 612-724-1736 |
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