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MN Secretary of State Steve Simon on The New Presidential Primary and Privacy and Election Security

https://www.sos.state.mn.us/

The MN Presidential Primary is Tuesday March 3rd.  It is the first presidential primary in our state in three decades and comes out of the chaos at the MN caucuses in 2016.

Steve Simon is MN’s 22nd Secretary of State. He oversees voting and elections in the state of MN and joined us today to talk about a bill he's supporting to make your primary vote private, and how the state of Minnesota is working to make sure theNovember 2020 elections are secure.

If you can't make it to the primary vote on March 3rd, early absentee voting is now open!

Heidi Holtan is KAXE's Director of Content and Public Affairs where she manages producers and is the local host of Morning Edition from NPR. Heidi is a regional correspondent for WDSE/WRPT's Duluth Public Television’s Almanac North.