A post election audit of five precincts was held at the Ramsey County Elections Bureau. CEIMN was at the scene and widely quoted in the video.
CEIMN in the News
WCCO TV News Report on Audit and Recount
WCCO-TV reported on the status of the US Senate election canvass and upcoming recount with comments from CEIMN's Executive Director Mark Halvorson.
Minnesota’s post-election audit of the U. S. Senate, Presidential and U. S. House races begins today under non-partisan, state-wide observation
News Release
Minneapolis, MN. Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota (CEIMN), a state-wide, nonpartisan organization that promotes verifiable and accurate elections, has recruited and trained over 180 volunteers to observe the hand-counting of the ballots for the post-election audit.
Minnesota performs first post-election review
State-mandated audit a success, officials and advocates say
electionline Weekly - electionline.org
I. In Focus This Week, By Sean Greene
Minnesota's first-ever post-election review - a manual count of votes from randomly-selected precincts in the state - drew raves from two sides that do not always see eye-to-eye, election officials and advocacy groups.
"I believe that Minnesota has done a most remarkable job at making every vote count and count correctly," said Janet Straub, a Minnesota resident and observer of the post-election review.
Minnesota performs first post-election review
State-mandated audit a success, officials and advocates say
electionline Weekly - December 14, 2006, electionline.org
I. In Focus This Week, By Sean Greene
Minnesota's first-ever post-election review - a manual count of votes from randomly-selected precincts in the state - drew raves from two sides that do not always see eye-to-eye, election officials and advocacy groups.
Voting Woes
Letter to the Editor, Mark Halvorson, Director, Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and the Star Tribune's Nov. 26 editorial both weighed in on critical issues posed by paperless electronic voting machines.
Krugman focused on Sarasota County, Florida, where 18,000 votes went unrecorded in the 13th Congressional District race.
In 2004, complaints about voting machines changing or losing votes were reported by voters across the country.
Post-election review checks accuracy of voting machines
Brad Swenson Bemidji Pioneer
A test of Beltrami Countys voting integrity on Thursday found a single glitch, one easily explained and which raised no red flags.
Not only am I happy with the outcome, but this was also an opportunity to test the system and build public trust, Beltrami County Auditor-Treasurer Kay Mack said after the nearly two-hour post-election review.
Election officials count ballots the old-fashioned way
By Natalie J. Ostgaard, City Editor, Crookston Daily Times
A handful of Polk County election officials got a taste of how ballot counting was done in the old days - more than two decades ago - when they conducted the newly mandated Post Election Equipment Review (PEER) Monday afternoon. The group spent 2 1/2 hours hand counting 476 ballots, but only for the offices of governor, U. S. senator and U. S. representative.
A New Breed of Watchdog For Election Day
By JUNE KRONHOLZ, The Wall Street Journal, Page B1
When Americans go to vote tomorrow, a new breed of activist will be on guard, monitoring polling stations for everything from voting-machine glitches to long lines to registration snafus.
Energized by disputed results in 2000 and 2004, they have left jobs as music conductors, real-estate agents and software engineers to form groups that expect to turn out thousands of volunteers who don't trust the country's ability to count its votes and have decided to do something about it.
Minnesota officials aren't fretting about new voting technology
The state's system has safeguards, lacking in other states, to allay worries of fraud and malfunction.
John Reinan, Star Tribune
Minnesota officials aren't fretting about new voting technology
Linda Mickelson hopes to go home early on election night -- say, around midnight.
That's a better deal than it sounds. Mickelson, deputy auditor in Grant County, usually gets to bed about 4 a.m. on Election Night after counting more than 3,000 votes by hand.