On Sunday, we posted Green and Grossell conduct dystopian fantasy workshop for Hubbard County Commissioners, an entry based on a Park Rapids Enterprise article.
One of Fosston Republican state representative Steve Green's remarks in the story, "Green added he’s 'never liked mail-in ballots anywhere,' " prompted reader Mike Worcester to comment:
It would be interesting to know how many (if any) of the voting precincts in Hubbard County utilize mail-in balloting per state statute and what they think about it. My relatives in Cass County who get to use it love(!) it. Perhaps the good Reps can explain why they feel it prudent to take that option away from them.
That question is easy enough to answer, since Minnesota counties keep that sort of information on their websites. Here's Hubbard County's list of polling places, embedded below:
Hubbard Co 2020 Polling Locations... uploaded by Sally Jo Sorensen on Scribd
Our friends at the Minnesota Reformer picked up on the Park Rapids Enterprise article on Monday with Deena Winter's Minnesota GOP lawmaker says Antifa and Muslim organization plan to ‘police Minneapolis under Muslim rule.' A good read, though slightly inaccurate about the scale of mail ballots in rural Minnesota:
Green also speculated that Gov. Tim Walz wants to implement mail-in voting “and remove the county and local precincts” and said he’s “never liked mail-in ballots anywhere.”
Many rural Minnesota counties exclusively use mail-in balloting.
Well, no. Many sparsely populated rural Minnesota townships and small towns--not entire counties--vote exclusively by mail. The Minnesota Secretary of State's website explains in Cities and towns that vote by mail:
Some jurisdictions in Minnesota hold elections by mail instead of voting at polling places.
All non-metropolitan townships and cities with less than 400 registered voters located outside of the Minneapolis/St. Paul seven-county metropolitan area can choose to hold elections by mail.
You can see if you live in a mail ballot precinct by entering your address into the Polling Place Finder. If you live in a mail ballot precinct, you will see a message that ballots are mailed to registered voters. You will also see the location of the central polling place where you can drop off their ballot, vote in person, or register on Election Day.
While not all townships and small towns choose the mail ballot routine, many do. While some rural residents of our acquaintance miss the ritual of going to the township hall, our friends in mail ballot townships and small towns like it just as Worcester's Cass County relatives do.
Screengrab: The beginning of the Park Rapids Enterprise article.
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