Mark Ritchie Video

by: JeffStrate

Thu Aug 26, 2010 at 11:06:09 AM CDT

Leah Solo, Mark's campaign manager sent out an email alert today which in part says:

"Mark Ritchie is a great leader and a great Secretary of State. But we cannot take this race for granted.  We're in a race against big money and opponents willing to make baseless accusations.  Some of the biggest GOP donors in the state have maxed out to our opponent, and with the new laws, we're up against corporate money.  

We expect the attacks against Mark to be frequent.  We expect them to be fabrications of reality.  We expect them to be largely fact-free."  - Leah Solo

Readers should refer their Republican friends to Mark's conversation with Tim O'Brien on the current edition of Democratic Visions.  We've posted it on YouTube:

(here's the YouTube link)

Primary Absentee Balloting Breaks Previous Record

by: JacobGrippen

Sat Aug 07, 2010 at 23:07:13 PM CDT

http://www.mnprogressiveprojec...

Secretary of State Mark Ritchie said elections officials had accepted 21,703 absentee ballots as of this [Friday] morning. Absentee voting continues on Saturday and Monday.

At a house party this evening I had a chance to hear Secretary of State Mark Ritchie speak about why he's running for re-election, and about the things that his office does, and how as the State Election Official he and his staff and the 87 counties oversee Minnesota's voting process.

He said that he received notice from his office that by early Saturday, the number of absentee ballots received was in the 25,700 range.

That number breaks the previous record from 1998 for absentee ballots cast in a primary election. That number was 25,257 http://www.startribune.com/pol...

So, there's another clue into what turn out may or may not look like on Tuesday.

You can absentee vote on Monday (most government centers/absentee voting locations should have extended hours on Monday), and ballots can still come in via postal service on Tuesday.

Who knows how high the number of absentee ballots will be, perhaps 28,000?

Who knows?

Mark Ritchie explains to Dick Day why he's wrong

by: ericf

Mon Jan 12, 2009 at 23:51:48 PM CST

At a state senate hearing Friday about the Franken/Coleman recount, Dick Day marvelously expressed the conservative view that disenfranchising some voters is OK. It explains how they could see it as election theft to count absentee votes that were wrongly rejected. That's the breaks, too bad. Day was talking specifically about the standard for hand recounts of going by the intent of the voter. Had the machine decided of course, and wrongly rejected ballots not been counted, Coleman would have won. It's self-serving of them of course, but also their attitude that voting is a privilege, not a right, so if you don't get to vote, so what? If you can stop likely Democrats from voting, isn't that just the game?

The money moment from Day: