Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon said his office is well prepared to handle early voting as the 2024 presidential election nears. Early voting for the 2024 presidential election in the state begins at 8 a.

While there was a ''glitch'' in Minnesota's new automatic voter registration system, Secretary of State Steve Simon said Thursday that nobody who was ineligible voted in the August primary as a result of the problem.

Minnesota Secretary of State met with press on Thursday to discuss election security as early voting for the 2024 presidential election begins on Sept. 20.

Minnesota's turnover rate for elections officials was 34%, meaning more than one-third of the people overseeing election administration this fall are new compared to those in 2020.

Elections officials are making changes to Minnesota’s automatic voter registration system after finding some potentially problematic entries, but they say they are not aware of anyone ineligible who has been registered to vote via the system.

Minnesota election officials are changing the state’s automatic voter registration system ahead of Election Day after finding roughly 1,000 potentially problematic entries. About 1% of the more than 90,

The Minnesota Secretary of State has inactivated the voting records of around 1,000 people following a review of the new Automatic Voter Registration (AVR) system.