ST. PAUL, Minn. – Early voting and mail-in voting in Minnesota are setting records, said Steve Simon, who runs election as secretary of state. “We are more than double the pace of 2016.” Simon uses 2016 as a baseline for presidential election years because the. 2020 turnout was depressed by the CoVid pandemic. County, city and township election officials have accepted 565,900 ballots so far, Simon said. Nearly 300,000 early ballots are yet to be returned, he said.
> Mail-in ballots must be received by local election offices by 8 p.m. on Election Day.
> In-person early voting can be done at local offices as late as the close of business November 4.
> In-person voting on election day, November 5, is at precinct and township places through 8 p.m. Most open at 7 a.m. but some at 8.