SCRAMBLE: As a life long resident of Minnesota it is becoming increasingly difficult to try and stay positive
As a life long resident of Minnesota it is becoming increasingly difficult to try and stay positive.
Nearly 1 million Minnesotans cast absentee or mail ballots before Election Day, the most ever before an election in a non-presidential year, the secretary of state's office said.
As of 7 a.m. Tuesday, local election officials had accepted 983,558 ballots. Of those, 699,815 were cast in person and 283,743 were returned by mail. Absentee ballots arriving Tuesday are expected to push the total past 1 million.
Rain did not deter voters Tuesday, with a steady turnout at Alice Smith Elementary in…
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