LaRose v. Simon
Minnesota
The NRF is supporting a group of individual voter-plaintiffs and the Minnesota Alliance for Retired Americans Educational Fund in a challenge to Minnesota’s absentee voting restrictions.
The suit challenges two restrictions: (1) Minnesota’s requirement that absentee ballots be witnessed by a registered Minnesota voter, a notary, or a person otherwise authorized to administer oaths, and (2) the requirement that absentee ballots be received by either 3:00 p.m. (if hand-delivered) or 8:00 p.m. (if delivered by mail) on Election Day.
The anticipated influx of absentee by-mail voting in both the upcoming August primary and November general election promise to exacerbate the disenfranchising effects of these restrictions, and they deserve critical attention. The case was filed in state court in Ramsey County.