Of 1.8 million mail-in ballots in Minnesota, just 2,500 arrived after Election Day

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The final tally in Minnesota's 2020 general election produced a historic turnout rate and a small number of late-arriving mail-in votes, making further legal challenges to ballots arriving after Election Day unlikely.

Secretary of State Steve Simon hailed as a "great success" a report that roughly 2,500 absentee ballots were counted after the original 8 p.m. Election Day deadline. Under a state consent decree that had come under challenge before the election, officials could count ballots that arrived in the mail up to seven days after the Nov. 3 Election Day.

Democrat Joe Biden carried the state over President Donald Trump by more than 233,000 votes.

https://www.startribune.com/of-1-8-million-mail-in-ballots-in-minnesota-just-2-500-arrived-after-election-day/573069142/

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1. I'm amazed that so many people got the word in time and shifted gears

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/11/12/after-court-ruling-few-minnesotans-risked-late-ballots

New figures from 82 of 87 counties compiled by the Secretary of State’s office show only 2,436 ballots arrived late and had to be segregated under a federal court’s order. Those ballots were counted and there hasn’t been a direct challenge to their validity.

The federal appeals court ordered five days before the election that those ballots would be kept separate in case the votes had to be subtracted during the ongoing litigation.

The five counties that weren’t part of the ballot compilation are: Becker, Beltrami, Houston, Marshall and Steele. They were not expected to add significantly to the total given the number of outstanding ballots.

Minnesota hasn’t certified its election results yet, but final turnout will wind up at about 80 percent of eligible voters.

We had been told innumerable times for I don't know how many weeks or months that as long as ballots were postmarked Nov 3, they would be accepted up to (or including) Nov 10. Then just 5 days before the election, that was put in doubt by the Appeals Court ruling. And apparently many thousands of people who hadn't mailed yet either got it in the mail right away or voted in person instead.