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ANOKA CO. MUNICIPALITIES REQUEST TO HAND COUNT VOTES
Seven Anoka County municipalities have adopted resolutions requesting that the Anoka County Canvassing Board include some of their precincts in the Post-Election Review (PER) hand count audit of the 2024 General Election.
These municipalities are the cities of Oak Grove, Ramsey, Ham Lake, East Bethel, Anoka and Columbus and Linwood Township. Others are considering similar action.
On November 13, 2024, the Anoka County Canvassing Board will make a decision regarding authorizing the hand count as requested by these seven municipalities.
This meeting is scheduled at 2:00 pm on the 7th Floor of the Anoka County Government Center, 2100 3rd Avenue, Anoka, MN. If you support their requests, please attend the meeting where this decision will be made.
Check back here for more details as they emerge.
ANOKA COUNTY ELECTION INTEGRITY TEAM (ACEIT)
Citizens in Anoka County, operating via an informal organization known as Anoka County Election Integrity Team (ACEIT), began speaking with their commissioners prior to commissioner board meetings in 2022 although their group started up in late summer of 2021. In 2o23, a public comment segment was added to the end of commissioner board meetings, but notably the county turns off their public video feed during this public comment time.
During the first nine months of 2023, ACEIT gave 82 speeches to the county commissioners, alerting them to the issues of electronic voting systems and the solutions available.
During 2024 ACEIT has been making formal presentations to cities in the County. These presentations run about 30-45 minutes including question/answer sessions. Below is a list of our presentations and municipal actions.
Below are graphics showing seven cities have passed resolutions requesting the Anoka County Canvassing Board to include them in the Post-Election Review.
ACEIT Presentation to City of Ramsey, MN April 23, 2024 (Part 2--Content and Q&A)
ACEIT Presentation to City of Ramsey, MN April 23, 2024 (Part 3--Close)
Contact Anoka County Election Integrity Team (ACEIT) at aceit@aceit.vote.
ACEIT Presentation to City of Ham Lake, MN March 4, 2024 (part 1)
ACEIT Presentation to City of Ham Lake, MN (part 2)
Let's Take Action!
County Commissioner Speeches
Most recent at top.
October 22, 2023
October 10, 2023
September 26, 2023
September 12, 2023
August 22, 2023
August 8, 2023
July 27, 2023
1) A report from hand counting in Big Lake on July 13, 2023 which made 50 participants feel as though they owned their elections again.
2) Request for hand counts of all elections for accuracy since PERs are not adequate.
3) Comment on PRT meeting: "Continue to find new ways to increase election integrity and transparency." It was asked if there was a plan to achieve this goal and after speech #5 Commissioner Reinert asked the staff to respond to this as yet unanswered question.
4) A postcard presented with 6-point goals to election reform - "A recipe for secure and transparent homegrown elections" (1 - secured election judge data; 2 - verified registered voters; 3 - validated paper ballots; 4 - paper pollbooks; 5 - hand counted paper ballots; 6 - small, manageable precincts
5) Since fraud permeates society, why wouldn't it be in elections too? Emphasizing 6 points in speech #5 From former Minneapolis 3rd precinct police officer
July 11, 2023
These 5 speeches began with a comment on new legislation—"I think these 2 new laws are proof that ACEIT was right all along"—and then shifted to electronic poll pads and their underlying software which can facilitate fraud at scale by manipulating the registration database.
June 27, 2023
- The story of hand counting in decades past.
2. A request for hand counting in the upcoming school and city elections.
3. Comparison of 2022 post election review with the number of ballots expected in upcoming school and city elections.
4. A proposed flow chart to bring elections to the county and precinct level, to eliminate NGO and outside influence.
5. Questions about the mandated electronic voting equipment (new law in MN) and the chose (by omission) of commissioners in Anoka to cede control of elections to the state.
June 13, 2023
- Steve summarized Tim Z's data comparing the 2018 to the 2022 midterms.
2. Derek recapped Mark Cook's video conference which was attended by Chairman Look and Commissioner Reinert—Commissioner Reinert said he would follow up with Mark about securing Anoka's equipment.
3. Brenda spoke about the election ecosystem, a part of Mark Cook's video presentation: voter registration, voter validation, tabulation, and reporting. Elections used to be controlled by the county and precinct level, but have now become centralized at the state and corporate level. A request was made to return to the decentralized approach of the past.
4. Sue elaborated on Mark Cook's recommendations. Eliminating networked electronics, cleaning up the voter rolls, auditing the registrations, fixed signature verification, ballots secured by live video, to name a few.
5. Chan brought questions the county can ask its vendor: 1) How to design a true performance accuracy test? 2) How to prove the modems are disabled when not used to transmit results? 3) How and where to maintain source code for all systems? (For independent party to look at under a NDA? MN does require SOS to maintain source code.) 4) How can an audit be done immediately after the election instead of with a time lag?
May 23, 2023
May 9, 2023
A meeting with Mark Cook is discussed before open forum begins.
Memo on Klobuchar letter to ES&S
Davin Memo - new state election laws
Cast Vote Records intended for public use
Public Data Request for Anoka County Cast Vote Record
April 25, 2023
Two commissioners agree to meet with Mark Cook.
Mission of ACEIT and intended relationship with Anoka County
April 11, 2023
April 11, 2023
March 28, 2023
March 14, 2023
February 28, 2023
Linwood Township Board Meetings
October 11, 2022
Erik van Mechelen
September 27, 2022
Erik van Mechelen
Township clerk confirms automatic availability of cast vote records (in first 12 seconds of video) and says she is in favor of hand counting.