Bill: Hand Count Choice
A simple bill to provide hand count option again.
Just a friendly update that the Legislature is currently giving you no choice whether to use electronic tabulators (vs hand count, self-evidently superior, not even close), but you can still choose electronic poll pads vs paper poll books, even though SOS office will probably threaten you if you try paper poll books—just ask Anoka County, who passed on the threat to their own election workers.
Total monitoring and modification capability has been the aim since at least 2013 when the el poll pad pilot began.
If we actually had a Legislature concerned about giving counties / municipalities choice to hand count, why was legislation amended in 2023 and why haven't we seen a bill to strike the amendment?
Below reposted from Midwest Seeds, a blog.
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.
Erik van Mechelen wrote [S]elections in Minnesota and is very worried a number of people are being mind-controlled, or at minimum not thinking at all.
