Why aren't all of the DFL straw poll results in?

Posted at 9:13 AM on February 4, 2010 by Tom Scheck (1 Comments)
Filed under: Campaign 2010, Campaign 2010: Minnesota Governor

You'll notice if you visit the Secretary of State's page dedicated to the DFL straw poll from Tuesday night's caucuses that roughly 17 percent of the votes haven't been reported.

Well, we wondered what was taking so long.

we asked the Secretary of State's office. An official with the Secretary of State's office says it was the DFL Party's responsibility to collect, count and submit the vote totals to their office.

Kristin Sosanie with the DFL Party told me yesterday afternoon that they're aware of the problem. She said that some local party officials haven't reported their vote totals yet and DFL Party officials are working to get the votes tallied. Sosanie said the other factor is that the vote totals have been submitted but weren't collated for each precinct.

For example, if there were six or seven precinct caucuses going on in the same building, the local party official may have collected the entire number of votes and phoned them in but didn't specify each precinct. That means all of the votes are in from that county but they aren't specifically tied to one precinct.

The outcome is unlikely to make too big a difference in the final results. Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak and MN House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher finished in the top two. Uncommitted finished third.

Comments (1)

As someone who convened a DFL caucus in Mound, I can report that there were only 2 others from my neighborhood who came to vote, and participate in the caucus. We were done by 7:30. I can imagine there could be caucuses where no one showed up at all.

Posted by gml4 | February 4, 2010 9:55 AM

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