By: Nicolas Hallett
Gov. Mark Dayton signed online voter registration into law Tuesday after the bill garnered vast bipartisan support from
legislators.
Minnesota voters can now register online, but will still have to cast ballots at local precincts. The Minnesota Senate voted 41-24 to approve the online system Tuesday after the House passed the same bill by an overwhelming margin of 129-2 several weeks ago.
The new law comes one day after a district court deemed Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie’s earlier incarnation of online voter registration illegal.