TO THE EDITOR:

Minnesota Elections are Unconstitutional! Minnesota’s Constitution Article VII requires US citizenship for a person to be able to vote. “Driver’s Licenses for All” went into effective October 1, 2023, which allowed MN Licenses to be issued to a potential 80k non-citizens. To register same day to vote, (either absentee, early voting or Election Day), it only takes a MN License, which does not indicate whether the holder is a citizen or not. Ballots cast by people that “same day register” are not kept separate from the other ballots until their citizenship and/or residency is verified, but are shuffled in with everyone else’s ballots. The process for verification doesn’t even start until weeks after the election is concluded and the election is certified. In Sherburne County, we had 5,123 same day registrations, or potentially 5,123 invalid ballots cast and mixed in with all of the valid ballots. Performing a hand recount of the stacks of valid and potentially invalid ballots is meaningless. Until the validity of all of the same day registration ballots is made, in order to win an election, the margin needs to be greater than the number of same day registration ballots cast in that race.

Bret R. Collier

Big Lake, MN