Minn. No. 3 for voter turnout? Ritchie says state No. 1

Author:
BMTN Staff
Updated:
Mar 8, 2018
Original:
May 10, 2013

Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie has long been proud of Minnesota's No. 1 ranking in voter turnout. After the November election, the Associated Press said Minnesota again appeared to be tops in the nation.

But a Census Bureau report released Wednesday dropped the state to third: Mississippi had the highest voting rate, with nearly 74.5 percent of eligible voters casting ballots. Wisconsin had a 73.6 percent rate and Minnesota had 73.2 percent.

Ritchie challenges those numbers and he says the state's figures show Minnesota is still No. 1, MPR reports.

State data show Minnesota had its highest voter turnout rate ever at 76.1 percent, Ritchie says. Ritchie noted that a George Mason University report ranks Minnesota first in voter turnout, followed by Wisconsin then Mississippi in third, MPR reported.

Ritchie says he's sending his findings to a new Presidential Commission on Election Administration, MPR reported.

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Two people in the house were uninjured.

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Voter turnout has been steady and Secretary of State Mark Ritchie says he expects that Minnesota will once again rank No. 1 in voter turnout among the states. Minnesota has been at the top of that list 12 times in the last 16 elections, the Christian Science Monitor says. Here's a quick round-up of what things looked like at the polls today.

Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie is changing the title of the constitutional amendment to “Changes to in-person & absentee voting & voter registration; provisional ballots." Sponsors of the measure, seeking to require voters to show a photo ID before casting a ballot, want the question titled "Photo Identification Required for Voting." Ritchie is being sued for changing the title on the marriage amendment question.

The nearly three million Minnesotans that cast their votes Tuesday put the state at the top of the list for voter turnout nationwide. Nearly 76 percent of eligible voters in the state made it to the polls and broke a record number of ballots cast, but the percentage of voters is actually lower than it was in 2008.

News that Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie has been uninvited to speak at a south Minneapolis Catholic church may be premature, according to church officials. Ritchie was scheduled to talk before mass on Aug. 12 at St. Joan of Arc. A spokesman for the archdiocese had reportedly said that invitation was being rescinded over Ritchie's efforts to change wording of the proposed marriage amendment.

Minnesota's Secretary of State Mark Ritchie told WCCO on Sunday that St. Louis County could delay statewide Election Day results more than previous elections. Ritchie said three write-in candidates looking to replace former state Rep. Kerry Gauthier will have to be hand counted. “We estimate that this may go to 1 a.m., 2 a.m., perhaps a little bit longer, in the morning,” he said.

Secretary of State Mark Ritchie has submitted the title “Limiting the Status of Marriage to Opposite Sex Couples" to Attorney General Lori Swanson for final approval, the Associated Press reports. Supporters of the constitutional amendment want it titled, "Recognition of Marriage Solely Between One Man and One Woman."

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