Government Records
Also instructions and exhibits relating to a Bloomington electronic voting experiment (1974-1976); studies on voter registration by Arthur Young (1977); and a videocassette, "Election Day '76," featuring secretary of state Joan Anderson Growe.
Accession numbers: None; 992-18; 999-4; 989-9; 11,830 (mss); 984-164
Catalog ID number: 001711142
Certifications of election, abstracts of votes, correspondence, memoranda, and reports. Most are carbon or photocopies.
Canvassing Board minutes, variants of Supreme Court orders to show cause, petition by Karl F. Rolvaag to reject supplementary abstracts of votes and declare him governor-elect, memorandum in support of petition, affidavits, memos, and miscellany.
Attorney general's opinions on election matters; map of Minnesota congressional districts (1933); chart giving county-by county comparisons of votes for Republican state and congressional candidates in 1938 and 1940; 1948 sample ballot; transcript of hearing before Elections Committee on state senate election contest, 66th district, Polk County (1951); and miscellaneous correspondence regarding election matters.
Partial sample ballot, marked for the Republican candidates, including the state gubernatorial candidates, particularly David Clough, Republican, and John Lind, Democratic-Peoples. There are voting instructions written on the back in French, Czech, Polish, Italian, and Finnish.
Digital version
Examples.
Correspondence, DFL delegate list, circular.
Proposed constitutional amendments (1953-1954); attorney general's opinion (1953); printed list of nominees (1954); correspondence.
Forms and circulars.
Forms, circulars, campaign literature, miscellany. Includes Eugenie Anderson campaign circulars and personal political items of assistant secretary of state Forrest Talbott.
Sample ballot (1960); petition form to allow an under-age Communist Party candidate on the ballot (sample copy, 1970); state Supreme Court rulings on status of various candidates (1972-1973).
Sample copies of printed notices, all for Benton County.
From Madelia and Wadena. Includes election register, 2nd precinct, Madelia.
Transferred from the papers of Congressman John Blatnik and found to be missing or incomplete in the microfilmed election returns (SAM 66).
Blueprint booklet. Missing from SAM 66.
Incomplete. Blueprint booklet, missing from SAM 66.
Mimeo booklet, 21 pages. The first 18 pages appear on SAM 66, Roll 75. Pages 19-21, containing the county commissioners races and the signature, are missing from the microfilm.
Sample ballots and forms, governor's writ of election (carbon copy), abstracts of votes, canvassing board report of special primary.
Notices, writs and proclamation, typed abstract of votes.
Ballots (sample), circulars, and forms; attorney general's opinion; statement and certification of election results.
Notices, certifications.
Correspondence, primary ballot, canvassing board report, newspaper clippings.
Precinct summary statements.
Canvassing board report and miscellany.
Canvassing board report.
Calendars, announcements, executive writs, memos, election results.
Features Joan Anderson Growe.