We have primaries in a month so I should really get started with this.
Here’s how Minnesota primaries work: you get a ballot. One page is the partisan page, and it is divided in half. There is a DFL side, and there is a Republican side. You pick the party you want to vote in and vote in only that party’s races. You cannot vote in the Republican race for Governor and the DFL race for Senator. You definitely cannot vote in both. If you try, your ballot will get rejected as a spoiled ballot and nothing will get counted. (If you’re at a polling place, you can turn in your ballot for a fresh ballot and try again.)
There is also a page of nonpartisan races. You can vote in all of these regardless of whether you voted on the DFL side or the Republican side of the main ballot.
The primary is August 14th and there are a whole lot of primary races this year so I am going to prioritize the DFL side of the ballot, probably to the exclusion of the Republicans. You’ll get my opinion of the Republican primary winners when I blog the general. Spoiler: they all suck.
In Minnesota, you can find your own ballot by plugging your address into the Secretary of State “My Ballot” site, here: https://myballotmn.sos.state.mn.us/
And you can register to vote here: https://mnvotes.sos.state.mn.us/VoterRegistration/VoterRegistrationMain.aspx
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Thank you for putting in the time and effort to do this! I found your blog a few years ago, and it has been very helpful to me each election since then 🙂
Do you think you’ll talk through the gubernatorial election as well? I find I could be pulled a few different ways on that ballot and interested to hear your opinions.
I’m going to write about the gubernatorial election but I’m putting it off a bit in the hopes, among other things, that someone will do a poll.