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(47,481 posts)
Fri Aug 5, 2016, 02:17 PM Aug 2016

Is there a place online when one can view a sample ballot?

I used to go the my city hall but I wonder whether one is available from the secretary of state, or the county, or the party?

(Not that it would matter much, none of the races are competitive. Except for some in Minneapolis, I think)

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Is there a place online when one can view a sample ballot? (Original Post) question everything Aug 2016 OP
Here you go vollehosen Aug 2016 #1
Oh, thank you very much question everything Aug 2016 #2
Good lord, Natalie Hudson. Brickbat Aug 2016 #3
Indeed. I clicked from the Myballot links question everything Aug 2016 #4
A right-wing loon with a drunk-driving problem progree Aug 2016 #5
Just as reenforcment, article from Minn Post about the Supreme Court race dflprincess Aug 2016 #6
Oh yes, Craig Foss, too, is on the ballot question everything Aug 2016 #7

question everything

(47,481 posts)
2. Oh, thank you very much
Fri Aug 5, 2016, 02:33 PM
Aug 2016

Only one office to choose: Associate Justice 6:

Natalie Hudson - incumbent

or

Michelle MacDonald

Any opinions?


question everything

(47,481 posts)
4. Indeed. I clicked from the Myballot links
Fri Aug 5, 2016, 03:17 PM
Aug 2016

These are their pages, how they present themselves and... MacDonald gave an "endorsement speech" at a GOP convention.

Bye bye Michelle.

dflprincess

(28,078 posts)
6. Just as reenforcment, article from Minn Post about the Supreme Court race
Fri Aug 5, 2016, 10:19 PM
Aug 2016
https://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2016/08/minnesota-supreme-court-primary-may-be-most-important-election-nobodys-heard
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Historically speaking, Minnesota Supreme Court justices running for re-election don’t have a whole lot to worry about: An incumbent hasn’t lost a re-election bid since the 1940s.

But some supporters of incumbent Associate Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Natalie Hudson worry that this year could be different.

On Aug. 9, Hudson faces two challengers in her bid to serve again on the state’s highest court: attorney Craig Foss, who says he’s running because he can’t find a job, and attorney Michelle MacDonald, who ran an unsuccessful bid for the state’s highest court in 2014 that MinnPost’s Doug Grow called “one of the most bizarre campaigns in state history.”

Of the three candidates running for the slot, Hudson is the only one with experience as an elected judge — and the only one actively fundraising for her campaign to retain her seat, according state campaign finance records.

But those efforts may not matter: In this primary, only the top two vote getters’ names will advance to the general ballot. With no other statewide primary on the ballot, voter turnout in general is expected to be low — and in judicial elections, the number of people voting always tends to be lower.

What this means for the Supreme Court race: The random choices of a very small number of voters — or a determined effort by a small group of activists — could have outsized influence on the result, and could even cut Hudson out of the general election.

question everything

(47,481 posts)
7. Oh yes, Craig Foss, too, is on the ballot
Sat Aug 6, 2016, 01:31 AM
Aug 2016

Frankly, I was thinking of skipping the primaries with only this race. But now, both of us will cast our votes for Hudson.

Thanks for the article.

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