Absentee and early voting polling places challengers authorization provision
This bill authorizes political parties, candidates, or local officials to appoint voters as "challengers" to observe early and absentee voting locations. For partisan elections, each major party can appoint one challenger per precinct; for nonpartisan races, each candidate can appoint one. Challengers must be Minnesota residents (proving residency via state ID), cannot use undeliverable mail lists to challenge voters, and are barred from interfering with voting or handling voter records. The bill updates election law to explicitly include early/absentee voting locations under existing challenger rules.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Feb 10, 2025
Last action Feb 10, 2025
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Committee
1
Feb 10, 2025
Committee
Referred to Elections
upper
Feb 10, 2025
Introduced
Introduction and first reading
upper
1 primary · 2 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Mark Koran
RRepublican
Co
Andrew Mathews
RRepublican
Co
Bill Weber
RRepublican
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