Max Hailperin
@maxhailperin
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With a Minnesota election nearing, a reminder that every absentee ballot you receive in the mail has a phone number and email address in the return address. Wondering why you got two? The elections office is more likely to know than social media folks. What to do about that coffee spill? Ditto.
I'm sure all the campaign professionals figured this out before me, but if you want to know which Minnesotans have already voted, you've now got two lists to buy instead of one.
Minneapolis shows a substantial increase in in-person voting with the turn from envelope-based voting to voters inserting their ballots into the scanner: 259 in-person voters yesterday at 980 E. Hennepin vs. 156 the highest previous day. That's a 66% increase. vote.minneapolismn.gov/results-data...
This may have been spray painted by hand, but it is more accurate than many of the computer-generated flags I've seen.
I've found a new contender for worst written campaign tweet. Assuming this guy has any staff, he ought to fire them.
I've made this kind of anticipatory homophone error too. My brain is already thinking ahead to later words' meaning while rendering earlier words into letters.
Yes, but that was at its original location. When a successor school was built two miles further south, it was called Central High because it was the successor to the centrally located Central High, not because it was still centrally located though two miles further south.
Once again, I'm calling on @angiecraigmn.bsky.social to stop using graphics that misrepresent the numbers.
Oh, cool, Novack was also an inventor, having patented an "improved ring structure [that] involves a segmental holding and spacing rack which is adapted to hold and space a plurality of rings such as a wedding ring and an engagement ring when the several elements are applied on a finger."
The National Camera Exchange was a comparatively recent tenant of this building. For most of it's life, it was Maurice L. Novack's jewelry store. digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/coll...
Agreed that cleaner voter rolls would be better and that working together toward that goal has become harder. However, I'll also say that as cleanups go, excluding aliens is small fry. There are a lot more citizens registered where they don't live than there are noncitizens who are registered.
There's a designated "Minneapolis Warehouse Historic District." www.minneapolismn.gov/media/-www-c...
I learn something new every day. From a footnote in the Minnesota Secretary of State's response brief in case A26-0997, I learn that approximately half of the counties hadn't made use of "direct balloting," the envelopeless in-person absentee variant involving insertion of the ballot into a scanner.
And the award for Best Distinction Without a Difference goes to Walter Hudson for "Me supporting Demuth was not merely a political calculation. Me supporting Demuth was an electoral calculation that she's best positioned and best resourced to win."
When a nation's name is used to designate the national team, is it normal to treat it as grammatically plural, or is that just a New York Times quirk?
We could also ask a locomotive expert to weigh in on whether the smoke ought to be coming out of the smokestack. I kind of feel like maybe that's why smokestacks are called smokestacks.
Oh, hey, Minneapolis has its early voting dashboard up. Remember, just because a jurisdiction is more transparent with its data than others are doesn't imply that there's a ton of useful information to be derived from that data. The future is still unknown. vote.minneapolismn.gov/results-data...
As I predicted, a week later Hennepin County is no longer way out ahead of all other counties. This illustrates that the early lead was just a question of which side of the boundary between weeks the early returns fell on, not a major difference in voter behavior.
Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services is hiring! Check out their opening for Absentee Voting Team Member. View more details and apply by using the link below: governmentjobs.com/careers/minn... [unofficial cross post]
Example 2: Consider the 0.6% of relevant voter registration records counties didn't mark as Deceased. The text indicates 8 of the 17 not marked as Deceased were in Inactive status (no longer registered) and remained so. There's reason to think the other 9 weren't confidently matchable.