Minnesota Citizens Jury on Election Recounts releases final report

The Minnesota Citizens Jury on Election Recounts, established this summer during the extended recount of the Franken/Coleman race for U.S. Senate, recently released its final report. They issued a “31-page report urging some fundamental, and even novel, changes in Minnesota’s recount system,” according to a MinnPost story. A randomly selected 24 citizens of Minnesota, met for 70 hours throughout nine days over three weekends, hearing testimony from 23 witnesses and deliberating. Mike Dean of Common Cause Minnesota in a MinnPost op-ed called “this type of independent review…a very Minnesotan way to recognize our top-notch election system.” For more read, “The verdict is in: Minnesota’s election system wins.” 
 
For more information, read the Pioneer Press story and visit the Citizens Jury website.