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What we can expect in November

This from Amir;

Minnesota, District 5:





8:00pm - Polls close.


8:15pm - 0% counted.


8:30pm - 0% counted.


8:45pm - 0% counted.


9:00pm - 0% counted.


9:22pm - 5.0% counted.


9:37pm - 99.5% counted.





Totally 100% legitimate. Nothing at all suspicious. Congrats to Ilhan Omar.


It's because the ballots and summary reports are taken from the Precincts to the County where they're added together.
Counting cannot commence at a Precinct until all of the voting is finished.
Ballots are put in a locked, sealed box until the election judges open it. We use old-fashioned paper ballots, which requires coloring in an oval.

Ballots are counted at the Precinct in public before the ballots and summary reports are taken to County.
Absentee and early voting ballots are placed and kept in the locked ballot boxes as received and counted with the election day in-person ballots. There are specific procedures for counting of ballots, including piling and the requirement for election judges to agree on tallies.

The Minnesota Secretary of State has a webpage that has easy-to-understand instructions for filing election complaints, complete with links to the correct statutes and correct place to file the complaint/challenge for the statute(s) violated

Minnesota Election Day Activities Statutes

Very small extract of pertinent Minnesota Statutes:

204C.19 COUNTING VOTES; PENALTY.

§ Subdivision 1.Procedure.
When the hours for voting have ended and all voting has concluded, the election judges shall immediately count the votes cast at the election. The count shall be held at the polling place and shall be public. It shall be continued without intermission until it is completed and the results are declared, except that the election judges may recess for meals or other necessary purposes. During the count no one except the election judges shall handle the ballots. Any other individual who touches or interferes with ballots during the counting or any election judge who permits such touching or interference is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ Subdivision 1Counting ballots.

Except as otherwise provided in this subdivision, the ballot boxes shall be opened, the votes counted, and the total declared. The election judges on each counting team shall be evenly divided between the major political parties. The numbers entered on the summary sheet shall not be considered final until the ballots in all the boxes have been counted and corrections have been made if ballots have been deposited in the wrong boxes.

§ Subd. 3.Premature disclosure of count results.
No count results from any precinct shall be disclosed by any election judge or other individual until all count results from that precinct are available, nor shall the public media disclose any count results from any precinct before the time when voting is scheduled to end in the state.

204C.28 ELECTION NIGHT; DUTIES OF COUNTY AUDITORS AND MUNICIPAL CLERKS.

§ Subdivision 1.County auditor.

(a) Every county auditor must remain at the auditor's office to receive delivery of the returns, to permit public inspection of the summary statements, and to tabulate the votes until all have been tabulated and the results made known, or until 24 hours have elapsed since the end of the hours for voting, whichever occurs first. Every county auditor must, in the presence of the municipal clerk or the election judges who deliver the returns, make a record of all materials delivered, the time of delivery, and the names of the municipal clerk or election judges who made delivery. The record must include the number of ballots delivered to the precinct, as certified by section 204B.28, and the total number of ballots returned, as certified by the election judges under section 204C.24.
 
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