The half dozen candidates seeking the Republican endorsement for governor this weekend in Rochester agree on one thing: Minnesota’s standards for voting are too lax. If they are in office next year they will tighten them up.
One of the candidates–former state Sen. Scott Jensen–even suggested recently that DFL Secretary of State Steve Simon should be jailed for his handling of the 2020 election.
The suspicion that the last election wasn’t fair is an echo of former President Donald Trump’s ongoing contention that he was robbed by Democrat Joe Biden, an assertion Trump has been unable to prove in court.
The Republicans competing for the party's endorsement to run against Simon don't seem to be going as far as Jensen, but they are calling for big changes in the way elections are run.
In a recent message to Republican activists, Secretary of State candidate Kelly Jahner Byrne said she would work to require that Minnesota voters show photo identification before casting ballots. She also has other proposals she says would make elections more secure.
“We have to get our voter ID addressed,” she said in a video. “We need to have our provisional ballots, and we can only have U.S. citizens voting and deciding American elections. Being married to an immigrant, I understand that firsthand, only eligible U.S. citizens voting in our elections."
That sounds bad, but there's no evidence that voting by non-citizens, which is illegal, is a major problem in the United States. Byrne did not...
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