Reply #47: Our Dem Secretary of State has proposed eliminating the current absentee ballot system and replacing

[scarletwoman]

it with early voting. I don't have a link to all the details, but it sounds like a very good and workable proposal. Ballots would be scanned right then and there at the polling stations instead of being held back until election night. The results, of course, would not be released until all voting is completed on election day.

The state legislature may also take a look at writing a provisional seating law, so that the presumptive winner of a close election -- after the state-mandated recount -- can be seated even if there is a court appeal. It would be modeled on the laws that are already in place in most other states -- Minnesota is one of a very few states that do not provide for provisional seating during an election contest.

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