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.
Your voting rights
You have the right to:
- Vote privately and independently.
- Have an accessible polling place with voting machines for voters with disabilities.
- Change or correct your ballot before it is cast.
- Have time off work to vote.
- Vote if you are in line by 8 p.m.
- Register on election day.
- Bring children to the polls.
- Vote if you are not currently incarcerated for a felony conviction.
- Vote if under guardianship, unless a judge has revoked your right to vote.
- Vote without being influenced.
- File a complaint.
You can also get help from your polling place or bring someone of your choice. You can't get help from your employer or union.
To request information about your rights, contact Elections at elections@co.dakota.mn.us.
Ways to get involved
To get involved in elections and voter outreach, visit
mnvotes.org.