Bill: Choice to Hand Count
No senator / representative in MN will put this bill... why not?
Bill to be entitled: “Hand Count Choice”
Amend Minn Stat. §206.58 subdivision 1 to strike:
Once a municipality has adopted the use of an electronic voting system in one or more precincts, the municipality must continue to use an electronic voting system for state elections in those precincts.
Amend Minn Stat. §206.58 subdivision 3 to strike:
Once a county has adopted the use of an electronic voting system in one or more precincts, the county must continue to use an electronic voting system for state elections in those precincts.
Note: As suggested by one attorney, the 2023 amendment to Minn Stat. §206.58 which ‘mandated’ the electronic tabulators was itself unconstitional by the rule of ex post facto—the counties and municipality decision makers could not have known it would be their last chance to decide and some may well have chosen NOT to use electronics if they had known the amended statute was coming. Please forward this part to your favorite law firms which collect money to do very easy lawsuits on the ‘low hanging fruit’ of Minnesota’s 500-page horror show of election codes.
Take Action: If in Minnesota, please forward this to your representatives and senators who are currently failing to represent you by blocking your friends who are election judges (poll workers) from hand counting and hand tallying ballots and votes on election day/night.
Meanwhile, at present, 2-way cellular modem enabled tabulators (from vendors like ES&S and Dominion) were used across Minnesota in 2024 general election, clear violation of law—along with the internet-connected KNOWiNK iPads known as electronic poll pads—to give centralized real-time surveillance, monitoring, and modification capabilities, none denied by MNSOS Steve Simon as it is in Minn Stat §201.225 that this is allowed (for the iPads) and real-time ballot counts accessible from central dashboard confirmed in Jan 29, 2025 county-wide propaganda meeting to ‘sell’ Anoka on how great iPads are by Election Manager Tom Hunt. This is why close races like Commissioner Gamache vs challenger Randy Nelson (49 votes) with 600 ballots arriving late, not reported until after midnight, are highly suspicious.
If this bill is not put this session, it is already April, an obvious opportunity will have been missed. I put faith in no politicians and certainly not in the government which is a criminal organization we’ve been taught to call the government. Maybe one or two senators will prove me wrong.