Crow Wing County officials recently gave a group of persistent election deniers some of what they wanted.
The county board voted Aug. 23 to hand-count November election results in twice as many precincts as state law requires in a post-election review — four instead of two.
The board also voted to produce “cast vote records” — which show how election software reads cast ballots — of the 2020 election and August primary, as first reported by the Brainerd Dispatch.
The push for “cast vote records,” is part of a national campaign by right-wing activists such as MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell to change election laws and oversight.
Some of the commissioners said they had full faith in their elections but were trying to appease activists. The activists, however, were not appeased because they want all the precincts hand-counted and they don’t want the cast vote records to be randomized, although that’s automatically done, county officials said.
State law requires counties to double-check results by having election judges hand count results in random precincts. If the difference is more than one-quarter of 1%, more precincts are hand-counted. And if there are still enough differences, the entire county is recounted.
Since 2006, the state hasn’t had to escalate to more recounts, and Crow Wing County has never had to.
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