Election judge party affiliation classified as public data on individuals.

HF 596 classifies the major political party affiliation of election judges as publicly available data, making it accessible to anyone. The bill amends Minnesota Statutes to require appointing authorities to maintain a public list of election judges' party affiliations (or a note if they don't affiliate with a major party), while repealing a prior rule that restricted sharing this information only to precinct-level election judges for verifying party balance requirements. This changes current practice by removing the prior restriction that limited access to election judges within the same precinct. The bill directly affects election judges (whose party affiliation becomes public) and the public (who can now access this information).