ST. PAUL, Minn. – The security chief for Minnesota elections, Bill Ekblad, says the 2024 elections are as invulnerable to corruption as never before. And, he noted, the state has a long record of clean elections. To help local election leaders unanticipated situations, Ekblad conducted table-top exercises recently with 50 county officials. The exercises went well in every scenario, he said. At the meetings, he noted that no foreign adversaries are known to have tried cracking Minnesota’s election systems in 2020. He acknowledged, though, that in 2016 there were 21 states targeted from abroad. Ekblad named Russia as the country that was “rattling doorknobs” but didn’t get in.
