Mark on the Mark
Kudos to DFL Secretary of State Mark Ritchie. His office is set to launch a brilliant and extremely helpful new tool: A precinct caucus finder.
This is no small feat. Minnesota precinct caucuses are held in myriad places like schools, churches and town halls, and many of the locations change at the last minute. Notes Ritchie, "We had fabulous cooperation from all the political parties, big and small."
Starting tomorrow, anyone can go to the SOS home page and punch in an address. The search engine will deliver a drop down menu listing the parties that are officially having caucuses with their locations. The political parties holding caucus are the DFL, the GOP, the Constitution, the Green and the Libertarian. The Independence Party is having its caucus online, so the SOS site will have that link. The Independence and Green parties are also organizing differently, and the SOS site will provide clear direction.
Ritchie thinks the caucus finder will go live with "99.9% accuracy," but his office will work to incorporate all the changes that are sure to follow in the coming weeks before the big day, February 5.
To the best of our ad hoc phone calling and web surfing, it appears that Minnesota is the first state that will have a caucus locator online. It's the kind of "access to democracy" thing that makes Minnesota proud and nation-leading. Way to go, Mark, the SOS staff and all the political party staff who helped the SOS staff.
This is no small feat. Minnesota precinct caucuses are held in myriad places like schools, churches and town halls, and many of the locations change at the last minute. Notes Ritchie, "We had fabulous cooperation from all the political parties, big and small."
Starting tomorrow, anyone can go to the SOS home page and punch in an address. The search engine will deliver a drop down menu listing the parties that are officially having caucuses with their locations. The political parties holding caucus are the DFL, the GOP, the Constitution, the Green and the Libertarian. The Independence Party is having its caucus online, so the SOS site will have that link. The Independence and Green parties are also organizing differently, and the SOS site will provide clear direction.
Ritchie thinks the caucus finder will go live with "99.9% accuracy," but his office will work to incorporate all the changes that are sure to follow in the coming weeks before the big day, February 5.
To the best of our ad hoc phone calling and web surfing, it appears that Minnesota is the first state that will have a caucus locator online. It's the kind of "access to democracy" thing that makes Minnesota proud and nation-leading. Way to go, Mark, the SOS staff and all the political party staff who helped the SOS staff.
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