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And they may be telling, depending on how you feel about a candidate and her or his habits.
In the interest of fuller disclosure, The Race for 64B is doing the legwork for you. Here are the voter registration records for the candidates who have declared or say they're thinking about a run for the office next year.
The registrations histories don't tell you WHO they voted for or even what races were on their ballots. But the voter files have some important data -- like how often they exercise their franchise. It also tells you where they did it.
Take a look for yourself.
It's all public information, taken right from the state's voter database, at the request of The Race for 64B. The database only covers Minnesota, and only goes back as far as the state's electronic records started in 1993, according to Ramsey County elections manager Joe Mansky. So these records may not reflect the full history of each voter.
Several candidates also say there are errors in their records (see the explanations below), but Mansky said in an interview today there is no independent way to check those claims outside of the state database.
Feel free to add comments to this post if the data gives you any insight. Click on each name to see the documents.
- Matthew Bergeron
- Brian Bergson
- Greta Bergstrom
- Beth Fraser
- Matt Freeman *
- Martin Ludden
- Melanie McMahon **
- Dave Pinto
- Gloria Zaiger
* Matt Freeman says his voter registration record does not reflect a ballot he cast in 2008. Freeman says he was working for Barack Obama's presidential campaign in Minnesota that fall and voted in-person absentee at the Isanti County courthouse in Cambridge.
** Melanie McMahon says her voter registration record does not reflect ballots she cast in 2000, and 2007. She said she voted by absentee ballot in 2000, when she was traveling in Europe. She says she's sure she voted at the polls in the 2007 election, but doesn't know why her record doesn't reflect that vote.
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