State laws limits a person from assisting more than three voters in a given election and pose the same limit on collection or delivery of absentee ballots.
Attorney John Gore said it’s up to the Democrats, who initially sued to stop enforcement, to prove that the laws have unduly burdened people from casting ballots. - Brian Bakst | MPR News
During visit to Kenosha, Wis., Joe Biden says the U.S. is confronting "original sin."
During the Democratic presidential candidate's visit to the battleground state he compared the current era of cell phone videos of violent police actions to television footage showing civil rights protesters being beaten more than a half-century ago. He called both an "awakening" for white Americans.
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers had asked both Biden and President Donald Trump, who had visited days earlier, not to come.
“I would prefer that no one be here, be it candidate Trump or candidate Biden,” Evers said in a news conference. (AP)
Trump faces pushback for urging people to vote twice as test . When asked by a television reporter in North Carolina if Trump had confidence in the vote-by-mail system the president said: “They will vote and then they are going to have to check their vote by going to the poll and voting that way because if it tabulates then they won’t be able to do that ... So, let them send it in and let them go vote." (AP)
Walz, Gazelka working to 'reset' relationship after tense letter exchange. The Star Tribune Reports: "DFL Gov. Tim Walz and Senate Republican Leader Paul Gazelka vowed Thursday to reinforce their “mutual respect” after a sharp exchange of letters criticizing each other’s response to the coronavirus pandemic." (Star Tribune)
St. Paul families to receive $500 a month in pilot program this year. St. Paul will join more than 20 cities nationwide that have already rolled out similar programs. The payments are expected to go out sometime in the fall to families chosen from an existing program. (MPR News)
