Minnesota's top elections official acknowledges there was a “glitch” in the state's new automatic voter registration system

As early voting starts this Friday in Minnesota, elections officials say they’ve improved the state’s new automatic voter registration system after a review discovered around 1,000 registrations that lacked proof of citizenship and addresses.

The Secretary of State's office said it updated its review process for applicants automatically registering to vote when they get their state-issued ID in order to prevent errors.

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.