U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (DFL) is addressing federal election oversight and protections on the first day of early voting in Minnesota Friday.
Klobuchar’s home state of Minnesota consistently ranks among the top in the nation for voter turnout, but in the wake of the 2020 Election, confidence in the voting system for some voters has wavered in the state and certainly across the U.S. Artificial intelligence concerns is not helping either.
Klobuchar, however, says new protections are in place this go-around that should reassure voters that their ballots are protected.
“We made, on a bipartisan basis through my committee, some changes to that Electoral Count Act to make sure it worked and one person couldn’t just hold it up for days, which is actually the way the old law was, and that kind of fomented into the insurrection,” says the senator.
Minnesota’s senior senator also says new protections for polling staff should help.
The Senate Rules Committee also passed three Klobuchar-led …