There s no question 2020 was a historic election year between the pandemic and Joe Biden s win over incumbent Donald Trump.
Minnesota election officials sent out roughly 2.2 million absentee ballots for the 2020 general election, nearly three times more than in the 2016 general election, according to data from the Office of the Secretary of State.
Not all those ballots were returned and not all were accepted.
Fear of voter fraud continues to loom over the Minnesota Legislature as lawmakers hash out bills, including proposed election policy changes, in the last five weeks of the session. Claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election have not been substantiated anywhere across the U.S.