Absentee ballots now coming in strong
Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie announced today that absentee balloting for tomorrow's primary is already at the highest level in two decades.
As of this morning, election officials statewide reported that they had accepted 26,211 absentee ballots. That's a big turnaround from a week ago, when Ritchie told MPR News that he had not yet seen an increase in absentee voting.
His office released these primary absentee ballot statistics:
2010: 26,211 (as of 9:45 a.m. on 8/9/10)
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2008: 21,160
2006: 19,859
2004: 18,958
2002: 18,850
2000: 21,749
1998: 25,257
1996: 20,450
1994: 22,764
1992: 18,990
1990: 17,048