2022 MN Governor's race: on Government Reform
Michelle Benson:
Outlaw abusive practices like ballot harvesting
Easy to Vote. Hard to Cheat. Ensuring the integrity of our elections through common-sense approaches should not be controversial.
Minnesota needs to outlaw abusive practices like ballot harvesting and catch up to the rest of the country when it comes to voter verification.
Source: 2022 Minnesota Governor campaign website Michelle4MN.com
Dec 23, 2021
Michelle Benson:
The more we watch the polls, the less they cheat
HUGH HEWITT, DEBATE MODERATOR: In your opinion, did President Biden win the constitutional majority of the electoral college?
DR. SCOTT JENSEN: I can`t know what I don`t know. And I think we have to take that attitude towards 2020.
MAYOR MIKE MURPHY: I do believe there was voter fraud at a massive scale across this country.
STATE SEN. PAUL GAZELKA: I don`t think the election was fair, but I do think we have the results that we have. The electoral college is the way that we determine the election.
STATE SEN. MICHELLE BENSON: The more we watch, the less they cheat.
Source: MSNBC on 2022 Minnesota Gubernatorial debate
Sep 21, 2021
Michelle Benson:
Make it easy to vote and hard to cheat
All five Republican gubernatorial hopefuls were asked the same first question during the debate: "In your opinion, did President Biden win a constitutional majority in the electoral college?" Not a single candidate expressed confidence in the
long-certified results. Benson initially did not answer Hewitt's question directly, saying only that "our job" is "to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat," later adding: "The more we watch, the less we cheat."
Asked specifically in a follow-up if Biden won, she replied: "He was certified by Congress as having won the electoral college."
Benson also won re-election in 2020 and has not questioned the results. None of the candidates specifically explained which states' results they believe weren't valid.
Source: Bring Me the News blog on 2022 Minnesota Gubernatorial race
Dec 16, 2021
Mike Murphy:
Update and modernize voter registration systems
The 2020 election has highlighted the inaccuracies in our voting system. Voter integrity is vital to our elections, and to the Democratic process. Minnesotans deserve to know that our elections are free and fair. As Governor I will fight to protect
the ballot box, and make that your vote matters.- Update and modernize voter registration systems
- Purging voter lists and keep them up-to-date
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Require voter-verifiable paper ballots or records for every vote cast
- Replace outdated voting machines
- Require minimum cybersecurity standards for our election infrastructure
- Perform mandatory pre and post-election accuracy testing on all
voting machines
- Conduct robust post-election audits
- Common-sense voter Identification that doesn't disenfranchise legal voters
- Strengthen same-day voter registration policies
Source: 2022 Minnesota governor campaign website MikeMurphyForMN.com
Feb 16, 2021
Mike Murphy:
Voter fraud on a massive scale in 2020
All five Republican gubernatorial hopefuls were asked the same first question during the debate: "In your opinion, did President Biden win a constitutional majority in the electoral college?" Not a single candidate expressed confidence in the
long-certified results. Murphy, the mayor of Lexington, said he believes there was voter fraud on a "massive scale" across the country in 2020, though acknowledged he can't "pinpoint the evidence' because he's not "privy to the scheme."
He also cited a debunked Project Veritas video about the DFL primary in Minnesota's 5th Congressional District.
None of the candidates specifically explained which states' results they believe weren't valid.
Source: Bring Me the News blog on 2022 Minnesota Gubernatorial race
Dec 16, 2021
Mike Murphy:
Voter fraud at massive scale in 2020 across the country
HUGH HEWITT, DEBATE MODERATOR: In your opinion, did President Biden win the constitutional majority of the electoral college?
DR. SCOTT JENSEN: I can`t know what I don`t know. And I think we have to take that attitude towards 2020.
MAYOR MIKE MURPHY: I do believe there was voter fraud at a massive scale across this country.
STATE SEN. PAUL GAZELKA: I don`t think the election was fair, but I do think we have the results that we have. The electoral college is the way that we determine the election.
STATE SEN. MICHELLE BENSON: The more we watch, the less they cheat.
Source: MSNBC on 2022 Minnesota Gubernatorial debate
Sep 21, 2021
Paul Gazelka:
2020 election not fair; need election reforms
All five Republican gubernatorial hopefuls were asked the same first question during the debate: "In your opinion, did President Biden win a constitutional majority in the electoral college?"
Not a single candidate expressed confidence in the long-certified results. Paul Gazelka said, "I don't think the election was fair, but I do think we have the results that we have and the electoral college is the way that we determine the election,"
said the former Senate majority leader, who won re-election himself in 2020 but has not questioned the results. Gazelka added he is "not a big fan of how it all played out" and called for election reforms.
None of the candidates specifically explained which states' results they believe weren't valid.
Source: Bring Me the News blog on 2022 Minnesota Gubernatorial race
Dec 16, 2021
Scott Jensen:
Dead people voted in 2020; it's time for election integrity
All five Republican gubernatorial hopefuls were asked the same first question during the debate: "In your opinion, did President Biden win a constitutional majority in the electoral college?" Not a single candidate expressed confidence in the
long-certified results. Jensen said, "I can't know what I don't know. And I think we have to take that attitude toward 2020," he said, mentioning a Republican-led audit in Maricopa County that found zero discrepancies.
Jensen also said there have been "enough shenanigans," adding it's time to address "election integrity." He also said he believes dead people voted.
None of the candidates specifically explained which states' results they believe weren't valid.
Source: Bring Me the News blog on 2022 Minnesota Gubernatorial race
Dec 16, 2021
Scott Jensen:
Follow Trump in reducing rules and regulations
Some of his other campaign planks include no mask mandate for school kids, no vaccine passports, no vaccine mandate in the private sector or emergency lockdowns that don't work."We need to follow President [Donald] Trump's model,"
Jensen said. "His legacy will be policy. He reduced rules and regulations and put good judges in place. He went after NATO and NAFTA and trail-blazed issues. That's what we'll do. But we'll do something different and engage groups that weren't before."
Source: New Ulm Journal on 2022 Minnesota Gubernatorial race
Sep 21, 2021
Tim Walz:
State investments come back to you tenfold over
Walz and GOP challenger Scott Jensen [held] their only televised debate. Walz stressed that the return on state investments in things like education, roads & health care "comes back to you tenfold over.""You get a choice here of a vision of Minnesota,
one that questions our elections, one that tells women they can't make their choices, one that defunds our public schools or you get an opportunity that brought so many of us to Minnesota. An opportunity for a state that is inclusive," Walz said.
Source: Minneapolis Star-Tribune on 2022 Minnesota Governor race
Oct 18, 2022
Tim Walz:
Restore voting rights for formerly incarcerated people
Gov. Walz signed into law the largest expansion of voting rights in Minnesota in the last half century, restoring voting rights for over 55,000 formerly incarcerated people in Minnesota, establishing automatic voter registration, creating a permanent
absentee voting status, and pre-registering 16- and 17-year-olds to vote. Gov.Walz also signed the Minnesota Voting Rights Act into law--prohibiting standards that would deny or limit any citizen's right to vote based on their race, color, or language.
Source: 2022 Minnesota Governor campaign website mn.gov/Governor
Aug 6, 2024
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