House and Senate negotiators have agreed on a set of new rules for absentee ballot drop boxes, including 24-hour video surveillance of those containers.
ST PAUL, Minn — Key Minnesota lawmakers have agreed in principle to setting up new standards for absentee ballot drop boxes, including 24-hour video surveillance of those ballot receptacles.
House Democrats and Senate Republicans agreed that ballot drop boxes need to be protected from tampering, or abuse through ballot harvesting schemes. A compromise version of the State Government Finance bill will set new standards and require video surveillance.
Until now, state law has lacked a lot of specifics when it came to ballot drop boxes.
“The law basically said, ‘Hey, here are these things called drop boxes. They exist and you can have them.’ But there wasn’t a lot of meat on the bone. So we decided to change that,” Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon told KARE. Continue reading.