Votes received after 8 p.m. Nov. 3 will be segregated.
A federal judge in St. Paul on Thursday denied a request to halt proceedings in a Republican challenge to the state’s extended deadline for accepting mail-in ballots in the presidential race.
Although Democrat Joe Biden carried the state decisively over President Donald Trump, a pre-election ruling by the Eighth U.S. Circuit of Appeals required that ballots arriving after Nov. 3 be set aside for potential legal challenges.
More than 10,000 ballots were received Wednesday and Thursday by election officials statewide, a fraction of Biden’s winning margin of more than 230,000 votes in the state. Continue reading.