Elections 411

Election Facts - Trusted Sources

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• From Verified Voting, “While hand counts are necessary for checking election outcomes in audits and recounts, widespread expansion of hand counting would impair election administration and undermine public confidence in U.S. elections.” Their recent report documents the realities and risks to election night hand counts.

• LWVMN Article, before the 2022 election, correcting election misinformation at the legislature with the facts (originally published in the Minnesota Reformer).

2020 Elections Were Accurate - Proven Facts from Across the Political Spectrum

• Nationally, in the six states where former President Trump challenged the 2020 election results, there were 475 potential instances of fraud out of 25 million votes cast, making 2020 widely acknowledged as secure by both parties and the courts.

• The Brennan Center for Justice does an excellent job of listing government officials, judges and elected leaders, overwhelmingly Republican, who have publicly acknowledged confidence in the November 2020 Election.

• This report, titled “Lost, Not Stolen” was issued by "political conservatives who have spent most of our adult lives working to support the Constitution and the conservative principles upon which it is based: limited government, liberty, equality of opportunity, freedom of religion, a strong national defense, and the rule of law"

• This exhaustive fact check by PBS New Hour is also filled with evidence from across the political spectrum and shows that the 2020 elections were not "stolen"

• A Wisconsin judge ruled in 2022 that a Republican-ordered, taxpayer-funded investigation into the 2020 election found “absolutely no evidence of election fraud" - AP News Article

• Another AP News article from 2022 presents the overwhelming evidence that there were no major problems with drop boxes during the 2020 election.

• Within Minnesota specifically, please refer to the thorough audit done on MN Voter Registration by the Office of the Legislative Auditor, an evaluation requested and approved by the Legislative Audit Commission (LAC), which has equal representation from both the Minnesota House and Senate, and the two major political parties.

• Reporting done by the Minnesota Star Tribune documents the problems of election misinformation occurring here in our State, and how the League of Women Voters is working to combat it - Read the Story