When It Comes to Voting, Minnesota Makes It Easy

[lsanderson]

When It Comes to Voting, Minnesota Makes It Easy

Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump are waging an all-out effort to get supporters to the polls in swing states like North Carolina and Nevada. But there is one place where voters seem to need no encouragement: Minnesota.

For the last nine presidential elections the state has been No. 1 in voter turnout, according to statistics compiled by Michael McDonald, a political scientist at the University of Florida. In the last three elections, Minnesota was the only state in which more than 76 percent of eligible voters cast ballots.

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[carbonel]

I voted yesterday. This was the first time I'd done early voting (I'll be out of town next week) and it was surprisingly easy. There was a bit of a line; they'd had 247 voters the day before.