FAIRBAULT, MINN. — Microphone in hand, Denise Anderson paced from one end of a large conference room to the other, narrating as her team fed ballots into Rice County's vote-counting machines. Public voting equipment tests are one of the routine, usually sparsely attended duties for local government officials ahead of any election, but on a recent Tuesday morning, dozens of people filed into .
A lawsuit over election records data requests in Rice County has expanded into a challenge of the use of modems in voting equipment. The Minnesota Attorney General’s Office has gotten