WALKER — Sharon Anderson, Cass County auditor-treasurer, described for the county board Tuesday potential costs she sees if voters approve the voter identification amendment that will be on the November ballot.
Some of the possible costs to counties would depend upon how voter photo identification would be implemented, Anderson said.
Currently, 35 of Cass County’s 52 voter precincts qualify by having fewer than 400 voters to vote by mail instead of in person at a precinct site. Anderson said mailed balloting would no longer be allowed because voters do not vote in person where they can show identification and it would cost county an unknown amount to re-establish voter precinct locations.
Anderson said 47 of Minnesota’s 87 counties have some form of mail balloting.
More election judges might be needed at each precinct site, she added, because of the extra step of showing identification. Cass has registered up to 500,000 new voters in some national elections, she said. New voting equipment may be required, she added.
On another election-related issue, the county board Tuesday appointed eight people to serve as the Cass County Absentee Ballot Board. Along with auditor-treasurer department employees, they will count mailed ballots from June 29 through Aug. 15 for the primary election and Sept. 21 through Nov. 7 for the general election.
The ballot board includes Lori Gamache, Genell Kimball, Joey Wade, Sherry Hutchins, Rosalie Archer, Victoria Legvold, Kathy Bergmann and Denzel Gamache.
Anderson gave an update on flooding problems related to an old county ditch in the Pine River area. She said she believes installing a Clemson leveler to keep beaver dams from blocking water flow in that area looks like the best long-term solution.
However, due to flood conditions, neither county officials nor affected landowners can see the terrain well, Anderson said. She plans to check the site monthly until she finds water low enough that the ditch and ground around it can be viewed.
It is located by a lake known as Muskrat or Jokela. Anderson said beaver activity in the area has backed lake water up Hay Creek through the ditch, causing the flooding.
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Add commentVery Good Reasons to VOTE NO ,on Voter ID
Its normally older citizens who vote using the US mail ,and controlling the ballot box will most certainly have the desired result the GOP party is hoping for.
Voter ID take a closer look at costs
Up to $ 30 million to set up for provisional voting (not mentioned in the amendment.)
250,000 absentee voters.
45,000 citizens vote by mail
can we talk about 11,000 overseas citizens?
(and the military!)
Ends 500,000 election day registrations
There are estimated to be 84,000 in MN with no picture ID
Voter fraud right now the problem is felons voting.
They could go back to jail for voting illegally. Guessing
most do not know their status. That needs to be fixed.
Hardest hit by the Voter ID will be: senior citizens, students,
the disabled and you and me if we move at the wrong time.
I was happy to see Wisconsin has set aside (for now?) their Voter ID requirement until all the problems are addressed.
"Cass (County) has registered up to
500,000 new voters in some national elections."
That is huge!
Is that correct?
Interesting. Sharon has so
Interesting. Sharon has so much knowledge of the issue, so many facts and specificity that the dispatch devotes a whole half an article on it. They support this half an article with phrases like; "POSSIBLE costs", "...cost county and UNKNOWN amount", "more election judges MIGHT be needed". And Capt Cup-Cake falls for it hook-line-and-sinker. What's wrong CCC nothing good in the comic strip for to you examine, after all, isn't that your typical "reality" in news and politics?
Yep southie
Cass (County) has registered up to new
500,000 new voters in some national elections."
There's only about 29,000 residents in the county but the DNC is recruiting more every day.
I heard
a lot of people from the Chicago area will be vacationing in Cass County in Nov.
Michigan Republican Governor vetoes ID Law
Sad to say this is a republican who hopefully will be kicked out of the party. Another turncoat, like Roberts; this is what our country is being reduced to.
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder vetoed a proposal from the Republican-led legislature requiring a photo ID for absentee voting. Snyder also vetoed proposals that would require voters to affirm their U.S. citizenship before receiving ballots and to require voter registration groups to undergo training by the secretary of state or local clerks.
In other words, if you have a heartbeat, you can vote. Who gets a rat's (deleted word) whether or not you are actually eligible to vote!
Monica, looks like a correction is needed.
Poor pdnet. The tides are turning on voter ID as election day looms.
Hardly southie. Do some homework.
Thirty states presently have laws in place that will require all voters to show ID at the polls this November. That number could rise. Let's see if I can do the math. There are 50 states and 30 have ID laws. Isn't that like 3/5ths of our country with common sense?
the 500,000 is a state wide figure, not for Cass County
this is a reporter 'oops'
too bad this is the GOP plan to discriminate against citizens voting. If there are problems, fix them but do not penalize everyone who does not have an ID.
There are additional costs - copy of birth certificate, if one can be found (some people do not HAVE birth certificates if they had home births) - copies of divorce papers, etc. It's costly to get an ID.
While most people do have a drivers license, some do not.
Sad the GOP wants to put something in the Constitution that would deny people basic rights. I predict this will create a mess and it will be overturned from a higher level.
Voting needs to be fair.
I think we all agree that our Voting System needs to be fair. What I call fair will be a problem for others. It has been proven that "Grandma" doesn't even reconize her own children but yet she is able to mail in a ballot. Who is doing this - one of her children, one of the employees at the nursing home? Why do I have one vote while others have more? Is it fair to say that if you are not well enough to get out of the place you live at then you have not right to vote?
You can still vote but you need an ID. Everyone should have an ID. I do not understand how with so many places requiring more than one ID, how some people do not have an ID. I think all nursing homes and all banks require some type of ID. If you do not have an ID, than in my opinion you probably do not have enough knowledge about what is going on in the United States to vote. I think it is more important to be able to stop people from voting fraudulately even if this means that some ignorant people will not be able to vote (most do not vote anyways - others vote for them)
minnesnowda wrote "I was happy to see Wisconsin has set aside (for now?) their Voter ID requirement until all the problems are addressed."
ALL the problems will never be adressed.
GOP Govs. are NOT to be Trusted
Latest Classic example, is SC. Gov.Nicki H. proposed while a SC state lawmaker making HPV drug be made available for young females all over her state. For the Neo Cons out there thats kind of like what the Affordable Care Act does. However after watching how her Texas Gov buddy took heat over that issue in the reality show ( Republican Debates) , when the SC lawmakers passed Nickis bill after 3 years , the now SC Gov. Nicki H. VETO s the Bill. What a surprise. Do as I say ,certainly not what I do ,or said before because I was confused....... or could you repeat that so I can check my play book for my non answer......
Captron
Clearly has the attention span of a gnat. Way to stay on topic, dude. ::roll eyes::
snow
"(some people do not HAVE birth certificates if they had home births) "
Everyone wants to know how many homebirths (of legal citizens) have occured in the last 60 years that resulted in no birth certificate. You pulled that statement out of nowhere so please elaborate.
It'd better be way more than the illegal votes we know of.
GTprix.....I would amend your
GTprix.....I would amend your statement slightly.....Attention span of a nat, and the intellect to match.
Yes on Voter ID=Yes to higher taxes!
I've been saying this all along. There is a large added cost to Voter ID as it was written by the GOP of MN. This cost will be borne by us all.
Lost his grip and GTpric ,Responded to ur Bros post RE MI Gov.
Maybe you children should try to focus on the second half of reading skills ,first one was speed, second part started with a C.....
You must be
married to itterditter, what with all the nicknames and such. Why can't you two just grow up?
Newspaper publishers love this kind of baloney.
Weasel words like "potential," and "possible." Or how about an "unknown amount?" Or how about "more election judges might be needed?" And of course, "it all depends upon how it will be implemented."
In other words, they don't really know what it will cost. It may cost something but, then again, it may cost nothing.
But, it's enough to get some all a-twitter. Maybe they even feel a tingle run down their leg, I don't know.
In the end, we're all a bit dumber for having read it.
it won't cost 'nothing' to implement
please................no one believes that!
So, from the article,
tell us exactly how much it will cost, snowda.
please...........................try to understand the larger point.
"Cass has registered up to
"Cass has registered up to 500,000 new voters in some national elections"
And you don't think there's any fraud?
This is just another GOP
This is just another GOP diversion from the real issue of corrupt elections. They've got some people's attention on an insignificant amount of voter fraud while they hold the back door open to truckloads of invisible cash flowing into elections from the Koch brothers and Texas oilmen.
By the time this next election is over the Koch's and their ilk will own this state, our country, and our lives.
Thanks for nothing conservative fascists on the supreme court.
back to bed with you
fishhead!
How about that invisible SOROS cash, Fish?
Apparently his cash is so invisible you can't detect that he's funded left wing politics to the tune of billions over the last several years. It's starting to make me think you don't want the Koch brothers to participate in politics in their own country, so Soros, a foreigner, can have a monopoly on political influence in our country.
As for tolerating a "insignificant amount of voter fraud", I won't. Any amount is too much, and a percentage that is sufficient to flip elections (which is what we have in this state) is intolerably unjust.
Snowda, are you for real?
You need evidence of age and identity to get a Social Security card, I'd be willing to use their guidelines for voter registration. Or do you think Social Security is "too disenfranchising"?
Soros became an American Citizen in 1961.
And the Democrats could use a few more billionaire supporters to catch up.
The GOP candidate buries his money off shore
I can't believe this won't be an issue for most Americans.
The GOP candidate hides his wealth off shore
I can't believe this won't be an issue for most Americans.
My mistake, Southie...
...he still is spending billions on left-wing politics and yet the left act like that's okay, while the Koch brothers spending is somehow wrong. Can you give me an explanation for why that is other than that the lefties want to suppress their wealthy competition while giving their wealthy members free reign? (BTW, there are as many left-wing billionaires as their are right-wing billionairs, if not more. Do the names Warren Buffett, Barry Diller, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Eisner, David Geffen, Charles Gifford, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Norman Lear. Steven Spielberg or Oprah Winfrey ring a bell?