Minnesota is currently facing a 67-67 divide within the State House after Republicans overperformed expectations due to Trump energizing Patriots to turn out vote Republican up and down the ticket. The GOP’s House campaign wing, the HRCC, used divisive tactics and supported unendorsed incumbent RINOs to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars in deep red district primaries which continued to burn the bridge between the grassroots and the establishment. Local Republicans won despite of, not because of, the HRCC. The out of touch mailers they sent were enough to annoy voters and even turn them against the GOP candidates in some cases. 

In that spirit, the MNGOP and HRCC are failing to fight for two GOP House candidates that would give complete, instead of shared, control over the State House to make it 68-66 or even 69-65! Odd things took place on the MN SOS election results webpage on election night such as the addition/subtraction of votes or even results flipping between competitors! The SOS office explained these problems over the phone as [...]. More on this will be explained in passages below. One issue that is apparent in Minnesota elections is that counties and their election divisions abdicated reporting responsibilities onto the SOS. The lack of local control is worrying and gives too much power in one central group. It also appears the SOS office has yet to comment on the multiple election issues surrounding their office.

Concerns of election integrity on other fronts aside from vote reporting issues is also a top concern. Election integrity advocate and 2022 Republican Secretary of State candidate Erik Van Mechelen reported that an absentee ballot board member in Benton County was not allowed to do the appropriate amount of signature verification work yet the county certified the results anyway. He also reported a change in results for a school board election (ISD 728) which took place in Sherburne County and raised concerns with the newly added ballots to the results. Both Benton and Sherburne counties have portions that are represented in the legislature within House District 14B. Another major issue within that district will be discussed below.

 Here is what we know about the state of two swing district races headed to recounts:

14B: Dan Wolgamott (D) & Sue Eck (R) 

On election night it appeared that Sue Eck had flipped House District 14B in her bid to take out DWI Dan Wolgamott. As seen below, the SOS website reported that 100% of precincts had reported (meaning all votes counted) and Sue Eck won the contest. See below:

It was later reported that Wolgamott actually won the race by 28 votes. See below:

Following these results, Sherburne County stated that they had absentee ballots that were not reported on the SOS website. Sherburne County Administrator election officials say the omitted absentee ballots stemmed from a single ballot scanner that did not fully transfer its data to the state’s election reporting system. After these votes were added, Wolgomatt now leads Sue Eck by 191 votes. See below:

Another massive election integrity issue within Sherburne County we can look at is the newly created city ‘Baldwin’. Due to Baldwin’s recent creation, the residents had to elect a Mayor and four city councilmen this election cycle. Van Mechelen reported that election results changed in the city council race with the addition of unexplained votes causing the election outcome to change. Interestingly, you cannot find Baldwin results on the SOS election results webpage and only on the Sherburne County website.

Sherburne County will pay for the costs of a recount election and they will have an election canvassing board meeting today (11/12/24) at 1PM at the Sherburne County Government Center. Election integrity advocates have told A4L that they will be in attendance. RINO Chair David Hann has called on SOS Steve Simon to investigate. We have also been told that MNGOP Deputy Chair Donna Bergstrom will be at the Sherburne canvassing meeting. She and Hann must know that their jobs are on the line in December…

54A: Brad Tabke (D) & Aaron Paul (R) 

Like House District 14B, HD54A was a critical swing district with an incumbent Democrat legislator. Also like HD14B was that Republican challenger Aaron Paul was leading the race on the SOS election results webpage with 100% of precincts reporting. See below:

As seen above, Paul had a narrow lead that vanished as the night went on. See the new results that have given the lead to Tabke below:

More media attention has centered around 14B rather than 54A despite this race being even more razor thin. The Scott County Canvassing Board will have their meeting on certifying election results tomorrow (Wednesday, 11/13/24) at 3:30PM in Room GW 170 at the Scott County Government Center (200 4th Ave. W, Shakopee, MN 55379). The recount will be paid for by the state and unfortunately, counting the same ballots does not change much. The bigger question is how those ballots got there in the first place. The county did do a re-scan of the ballots but the hand recount is forthcoming.

Tabke is an unpopular politician who has gone along with every single radical proposal by the Democrats and even co-sponsoring the bills in some cases like his bill that mandates insurance companies cover genital mutilation surgeries, hormone blockers, and other drugs to destroy children’s bodies natural growth, evolution, and mental health. While normal people are opposed to child abuse, Tabke wants to mandate it.

Conclusion

We will learn more once the canvassing boards in the relevant counties meet and determine what, if any, action will be taken to ensure election integrity within our state. Voters have become more and more skeptical of the legitimacy of elections. Instead of fighting to regain our trust, election officials have given people more reason to question the results. Sloppy work is not corruption but sloppy corruption is. A4L encourages local Patriots to be a part of the county ballot canvassing processes and to call out fraud when it is encountered. If you want clean and honest elections, you have to fight for them!

NOTE - The Anoka County Election Canvassing Board will be meeting tomorrow (11/13/24) at 2PM at the Anoka County Government Center & Courthouse room 705 (2100 3rd Ave. N, Anoka, MN, 55303) and Patriots will be attending to support adding additional precincts to help localize politics.