Dakota County is responsible for the overall administration of elections held within the county. These duties include:

• Training municipal clerks and election judges in election law, rules and procedures.
• Printing all ballots, programming all automatic tabulating and assistive voting equipment.
• Maintaining all voter registration and voter history records for the county.
• Ensuring all campaign finance requirements are met.
• Reporting all election results to the state of Minnesota.
• Administering absentee ballots.
• Maintaining all election equipment.

Ways to get involved

To get involved in elections and voter outreach, visit mnvotes.org.