Election Day 2008 went smoothly with only isolated problems, according to the Minnesota Secretary of State’s office, and voter advocates who were monitoring the polls. Yet the potential for “irregularities” at the polls has taken an outsized significance this year, given the near-tie and upcoming recount in the U.S. Senate race. The group Minnesota Majority now wants the Justice Department to investigate potential voter fraud in Minnesota, my colleague Kevin Duchschere reports. A key point raised by this group is one that created quite a spirited debate on this blog - that registered voters don’t have show photo identification before picking up a ballot.

I’ll be curious to see the resolution of the group’s Data Practices Act requests for records related to “registration procedures, such as verification postcards returned as ‘undeliverable’ and voters who may have been challenged at the polls before voting.”

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