Ritchie: about 31,000 vote absentee in primary
Secretary of State Mark Ritchie says it looks like nearly 31,000 absentee ballots were cast in the primary, which is a new record. Unfortunately, after all the publicity around the 2008 U.S. Senate recount it also look like about 1,080 absentee ballots were rejected. That's just about the same percentage as were rejected in 2008.
"The 2010 Minnesota Primary election is the first test of the new design for absentee balloting materials and new procedures for reviewing and processing absentee ballots," said Ritchie. "So far the results have been remarkably successful."
Ritchie was standing by his earlier prediction that overall turnout would be about 10-11 percent. That's on the low end historically for primary elections.
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