MNVotes.gov

Elections & Voting Info

A wealth of resources provided by the Office of the MN Secretary of State.

Am I Registered to Vote?

Be Ready to Vote!

Check your voter registration status with these easy online tools.

Who represents me?

An easy lookup tool

With an address search field and a handy map.

Who Gets Voting Rights?

Civics Made Easy from PBS

In this episode of Civics Made Easy, Ben Sheehan uncovers the surprising – and often overlooked – true history of voting rights in America. From the founding era to Reconstruction to Civil Rights to today, this is the story that may not have been fully taught in school.

Election Protection

from Common Cause

"We will place thousands of volunteers on the ground, and recruit a team of legal experts to staff the 866-OUR-VOTE hotline. Common Cause is a crucial line of defense for voters against suppression tactics, confusing laws, outdated infrastructure, and other impediments to making themselves heard. Above all, we inform voters of their rights, help elections officials handle problems in real time, and notify legal teams when the courts’ interference is needed.

"State-by-state, we place trained poll monitors at polling places, especially in communities with a history of voting problems, where hotly-contested races exacerbate the chance of long lines, confusion, and other complications. We’ll also be in states where there may be confusion about voter ID requirements. Poll monitors will provide information, troubleshoot problems, and report bad practices to our teams to resolve them with election officials."

Voting & Elections

from the Brennan Center for Justice

"Americans still face many barriers to voting. Meanwhile, elections require secure systems and independent administration of the casting and counting of ballots. The Brennan Center fights for voting rights, and we advocate for plans that will safeguard the election system — and the officials who work in it — from attacks and political interference."

Oppose the SAVE Act

Write to your Legislators

..."if anything like this ever did become law, the cleanest single document would likely be a valid U.S. passport in your current legal name, because it proves citizenship directly. A REAL ID driver’s license would not, by itself, count as proof of citizenship under this proposal. People with name changes could be forced to assemble a full paper trail connecting birth certificates, marriage licenses, divorce decrees, or court orders to their current legal identity."

Election Chiefs Decry SAVE America Act

from Democracy Docket

"The bill’s restrictions on the right to vote also aren’t hypothetical: Similar laws passed by states in the past led to widespread disenfranchisement, Simon said. He highlighted Kansas’ Secure and Fair Elections (SAFE) Act in 2011.

"Though noncitizen registration in the state was statistically nonexistent, Kansas adopted SAFE and mandated that prospective voters show documentary proof of citizenship to register. That requirement, which has since been blocked by federal courts, prevented over 31,000 eligible citizens from registering to vote.

"'This isn’t some theoretical or imagined circumstance,' Simon said.

'This bill assumes that every voter can navigate these requirements and navigate them quickly, and that is just not reality,' Connecticut Secretary of State Stephanie Thomas (D) said before raising specific examples of people who could be affected by the bill’s proof of citizenship requirements.

"'Imagine a woman, divorced, she’s moved, changed her name and needs to update her voter registration,' Thomas said. 'Under this bill, that is no longer a simple matter. It means tracking down multiple documents.'

'Or imagine an 82-year-old man, he just moved into assisted living. He’s voted his entire life. He’s never had a passport. No one knows where his birth certificate is at this point, and he doesn’t have a family member to help him use a computer,' she added. 'That lifelong voter could be blocked, not because he’s ineligible, but because he can’t produce the right document at the right time.'"

Stacey Abrams on Voter Supression

from NPR

"Stacey Abrams is one of the most high-profile voting rights activists in the U.S. She says whether we have an actual democracy might literally depend on protecting voting rights in the next election cycle or two. How to prevent that? Keep an eye on the 10 steps from democracy to autocracy."

Fact Check: Voting Fraud is Rare

from the AP

"The nation’s multilayered election processes provide many safeguards that keep voter fraud generally detectable and rare, according to current and former election administrators of both parties."

2025 Minnesota Statutes

Conduct in and near polling places

"An individual must be allowed to go to and from the polling place for the purpose of voting without unlawful interference. Except an election official or an individual who is waiting to register, to update the voter's registration, or to vote or an individual who is conducting exit polling, an individual must not stand within 100 feet of the building in which a polling place is located..."

A Guide to Election Observer Policies in the United States

from the Carter Center

"Observers are trained to attentively watch without interfering. They examine not only Election Day activities, such as the casting of ballots, but also pre-election and postelection processes... Nonpartisan observation can provide a particularly important way for citizens to encourage accountability in the democratic system outside of party structures"