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Contact: Carolyn Marinan, Communications, 612-348-5969
Hennepin County Elections,
612-348-5151
Hennepin County
Elections Manager Ginny Gelms is available for pre-election and Election Day interviews.
Contact Carolyn Marinan at 612-348-5969 to coordinate.
As
of Monday, November 7, at 8:30 a.m. in Hennepin County:
- Ballots
issued (mail and in-person absentee voting) – 199,000
- Ballots
issued since Monday, October 31 – 71,000
- Ballots
received and accepted (mail and in-person absentee voting) – 176,000
- Ballots
received and accepted since Monday, October 31 – 83,000
Hennepin
County has more than doubled the previous record of accepted absentee ballots,
which was 82,000 during the 2008 election.
Hennepin
County has 759,000 pre-registered voters, the highest in recorded history. About
21% of pre-registered voters have already cast an absentee ballot during the
2016 presidential election.
Hennepin
County cities with the highest numbers of absentee voters:
- Minneapolis:
53,000
- Bloomington:
13,000
- Plymouth:
13,000
- Edina:
11,000
About
683,000 Hennepin County residents voted in the 2012 presidential election.
Mail-in absentee
ballots
Mail
absentee ballots must be received by Election Day to be counted. Voters may
drop off their absentee ballot until 3 p.m. on Election Day to the address on
the provided return envelope. For Minneapolis voters, that is the Elections
Office in Minneapolis City Hall. For all other Hennepin County voters, it is
the Elections Office in the Hennepin County Government Center—300 S. 6th
Street, Minneapolis.
Voters
cannot return an absentee ballot to their Election Day polling place, but they
can go to their polling place to vote on Election Day if they have not already
returned an absentee ballot.
Additional information
Monday,
November 7, is the final day for in-person absentee balloting. Eligible voters
may register to vote at
their polling place
on Election Day, November 8.
Voters can
look up their polling place, sample ballot, voter registration status, and
absentee ballot status at mnvotes.org.
For
more information about elections and voting in Hennepin County, visit hennnepin.us/elections.
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