Paper vs. electronic voter rosters: Who gets to decide?

By: Max Hailperin

Outlets: Minnesota Reformer

Published: August 20, 2026

Words: 1,356

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 5 days ago


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Oak Grove, Minnesota, has petitioned the state Supreme Court to settle a dispute with Anoka County over which of the two jurisdictions can designate the use of electronic voter rosters — as opposed to paper rosters — in county, state and federal elections held at Oak Grove’s polling places.

Anoka County has mandated all precincts in the county use electronic rosters. Oak Grove claims that this is improper and that …

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