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Minnesota is known for a politically active citizenry, and populism has been a longstanding force among the state's political parties. Minnesota has a consistently high voter turnout, due in part to its liberal voter registration laws, with virtually no evidence of voter fraud.
As with the federal government of the United States, power in Minnesota is divided into three branches: executive, legislative, and judicial.
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Appointees' information is private?
August 12, 2008: We discovered an (another!) alarming little loophole in the state's open records law this week when we requested the letters sent in by the applicants for Noah Cashman's open council seat.
Turns out that if an individual is an applicant to an appointed seat in local government, much less information is made public about them, according to an amendment to the state open records law, made this year. Read the full article here.
Supreme Court case behind Pawlenty's information policy is a 'legal antique'
July 11, 2008: When he’s looking to justify deleting his emails, Gov. Tim Pawlenty tastes run to the retro. The 40-year-old Minnesota Supreme Court case that the governor cites to support his position is a “legal antique,” says a local communications attorney. But that doesn’t mean it’s illegal for government officials to maintain scant public records. And email in particular, in wide use for a decade, is only now drawing the attention of lawmakers. Meanwhile, rules on what data is public and what must be kept aren’t in sync: One law lets officials decide to delete what another law says the public has the right to see. Read the full article here.
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