North Dakota
After Election Day delays, report suggests improvements for Cass County voting experience
FARGO — The November common election in Cass County prompted some considerations when lengthy traces fashioned at polling websites on Election Day.
Now, a report is providing insights on how future voting may be improved.
Throughout the election, volunteers who had been organized by the ACLU of North Dakota, North Dakota Voices Community and League of Girls Voters of the Purple River Valley collected observations relating to how the election was carried out.
These observations had been condensed right into a just lately launched report that gives policymakers and election officers some concepts on how the election course of may be improved.
Total, observers discovered ballot staff to be respectful, useful {and professional}; points that arose on Election Day occurred at polling websites with the heaviest visitors, the report acknowledged.
The report additionally discovered {that a} handful of websites appeared insufficient in measurement or scope to deal with the excessive variety of voters, which highlighted limitations on the voting facilities — corresponding to operating out of paper ballots or voting area that did not present satisfactory privateness.
As well as, the report acknowledged that a number of observers observed insufficient signage at polling places, and there gave the impression to be a scarcity of election judges at busy websites, which may have been an element within the lengthy traces.
The report made numerous options on how issues may be improved, together with:
- Increasing early voting hours past 6 p.m.
- Together with Saturday hours for early voting, much like Burleigh County in North Dakota and Clay County in Minnesota.
- Bettering workflow for busy websites like West Acres, Atonement Lutheran Church and Calvary United Methodist Church.
The report additionally mentioned the county may think about posting merely worded directions at every voting station on the best way to vote with the specific voting machines so judges may spend much less time explaining the best way to use them. As a part of that suggestion, the report really useful calling it “contact pad” voting as an alternative of “specific” voting.
Following a assessment of the November election, Cass County officers have
focused numerous areas for enchancment.
Including extra vote facilities and growing election staffing in each metro and rural areas are among the many issues Cass County election officers are contemplating.
Apart from these steps, the county additionally plans to enhance communication on the subject of letting voters know the place vote facilities are positioned and the wait occasions they’ll anticipate at a given location, thereby steering voters to the websites with the shortest traces.
“For me, it needs to be our aim to at all times guarantee safe, honest, open, correct and well timed elections,” mentioned Cass County Commissioner Chad Peterson.
Peterson mentioned he and the county’s election workforce interacted with constituents earlier than and after the election, and he mentioned there was no scarcity of compliments and constructive criticism. Each of which, he mentioned, are “vital for me to listen to and carry again to our workforce to study from.”
Murray Nash, the county’s election administrator, mentioned shortly after the overall election the county sought enter from the teams that organized the election remark “with the intention to confirm the complete vary of views” on how the election went.
Nash mentioned the teams offered their findings to county officers in late November, and “there have been no actual surprises.”
“The county is targeted on enhancing the election expertise for each voters and election workers, and we’re investigating the problems recognized (within the election remark report),” Nash mentioned.
MINOT, N.D. (Valley News Live) – The 2024 North Dakota State Fair opens on Friday, July 19, and runs through July 27 with a lineup packed full of entertainment, rides, and family fun.
Fair organizers say the Grandstand Showpass is your ticket to some hot acts in the country music scene, such as Lainey Wilson, Sawyer Brown, Turnpike Troubadours, and Thomas Rhett, along with a demolition derby and the MHA Indian Horse Relay. You can catch all of the acts with the Showpass for $130.
Single ticket shows are also available, including Mötley Crüe with special guest White Reaper, Machine Gun Kelly with Shaboozey opening the show, and hip-hop icon Lil Wayne.
Tickets are available for $85 for Mötley Crüe, $75 for Machine Gun Kelly, and $65 for Lil Wayne, with both standing room and reserved seating options available.
A season gate pass for all nine days at the fair costs $25. You get tickets online by using the “TICKETS” link at www.ndstatefair.com
It’s the 59th year of the North Dakota State Fair tradition in Minot. Fair officials say they drawing over 300,000 visitors annually.
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MILWAUKEE (KFYR/KMOT) – The Republican National Convention wrapped up on Thursday with former President Donald Trump accepting the Republican nomination for president.
We got the chance Thursday night to speak with members of the North Dakota delegation. When we spoke to the delegates, they talked about the enthusiasm that former President Trump brought onto the stage just a week after that assassination attempt on his life.
“Well, it was exciting. He told his story in a very frank way. And it sounds like a very unique way he’s done. It’s not like he’s going to tell it that way again,” said Ben Koppelman, delegate.
“His message was amazing is we just got to make this country great again and get back to what we’re good at working hard drilling for oil, just making America great again,” said Mary Graner, delegate.
“Well, it was longer than I thought it was going to be for sure. But, you know, he gets portrayed as the guy that sows division, and he did just the opposite,” said Scott Louser, delegate.
“Amazing. I mean, breathtaking. It was so awesome. You just felt full of hope and gratitude and promise for our country,” said Wendi Baggaley, delegate.
We spoke with more of our delegates about a whole range of topics, and we will have more follow-ups in the coming days.
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BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) – For the last ten years, the North Dakota American Indian Summit has provided information and resources about Native American culture and history for the classroom.
It has also discussed ways to help Native American students work on healing any trauma or improving their mental health to aid their academic success.
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the Native American graduation rate ten years ago was 60 percent. That year, the North Dakota American Indian Summit was organized by the Department of Public Instruction. The event’s purpose was to educate teachers on how to lead their Native American students to success in school.
”It became obvious that it was critical, for the success of our state, and for the ability for us to fully thrive to our fullest potential as a state, we needed to make sure that every single student in our school system was meeting their fullest potential,” said Kirsten Baesler, state superintendent.
This year Derrick Boles, a motivational speaker, was invited to be one of the keynote speakers at the summit. Boles’ message was about mental health and taking charge of your life. He said he sees similarities between challenges in the Black community to the ones the Native American community faces.
”There’s so much growth that can happen if we can connect people together, from multiple backgrounds,” said Boles. “So having different experiences, different perspectives and just having everybody thinking the same thing is the issue.”
Over the last 10 years, the Native American student graduation rates have increased, from 60 percent in 2014 to 77 percent in 2023.
”Right before the pandemic, our Native American students were graduating at the same rate as all of our overall graduation rate, and so they were in the upper eighties, lower nineties graduation rate,” said Baesler.
The rates decreased again during the COVID-19 lockdown, but Baesler said they have been on the rise.
This year’s summit was focused on strengthening Native American education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
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