Star Tribune Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:29:01 CST
Some voted early - others, too often
Overly enthusiastic ballot-box stuffers stalled a state-sponsored contest for Minnesota towns to be nominated as "Capital for a Day." We are not Chicago." That's the message organizers of the state's sesquicentennial celebration want to get out in the wake of its own voter fraud scandal. Online voting began Monday for communities to win an honorary "Capital for a Day" designation. The Minnesota Sesquicentennial Commission asked that people limit themselves to no more than five votes. Didn't happen. As votes came in, tens of thousands of them in just the first two days, the commission determined that many were "obviously from a single person, or a couple of people," said commission spokesman Tane Danger.
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