Kim Crockett, the Republican candidate for Minnesota secretary of state, has made a litany of erroneous statements about election administration during her campaign to be the state’s top election official.
Chief among them: She called the 2020 election “rigged” and is a proud believer in the false assertion that former President Donald Trump won the 2020 election, even though thousands of Republican election judges oversaw the election, and a random group of precincts in every Minnesota county were hand-counted to ensure accuracy.
Crockett falsely accuses Simon of rigging the 2020 election when he agreed to a judicially approved consent decree — after a voting rights group sued the state — to expand mail balloting for safe voting during the pandemic.
Post-election reviews by county administrators found no significant irregularities. Minnesota Republicans picked up a congressional seat, maintained their state Senate majority and picked up state House seats, which means for the election to have been “rigged,” Democrats rigged it against themselves.
Her DFL opponent, Secretary of State Steve Simon, has called the 2020 election “fundamentally fair, accurate, honest, and secure.”
Michelle Witte, executive director of the League of Women Voters of Minnesota, condemned factually erroneous claims that shake Minnesotans’ confidence in elections: “To me, it’s very irresponsible for anyone to sow doubts without facts,” she said. “When people make claims that truly undermine our...
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