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State and local elections officials in Minnesota are stepping up preparations ahead of the Nov. 3 general election.
In a live interview Saturday as part of the MinnPost Festival, Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon described the coordination underway with state, local, and community partners to enable “a war room mentality” on Election Day.
“It would be pretty foolish of us to pretend it couldn’t happen,” Simon said, referring to the possibility that the federal government may attempt to interfere with voting or ballot counting.
Simon has twice traveled to out-of-state conferences with Attorney General Keith Ellison and other state officials to game out election threat scenarios, Simon said during the interview at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis.
His office met this month with officials from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, and they are also coordin...
