A further piece to the Minnesota Majority was an attack on Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, the DFLer up for re-election. But it was actually Ritchie who for two years fought to tighten the tracking system of ineligible voters and sought to improve notification of felons about their rights; those bills were vetoed for a while by Gov. Tim Pawlenty.
Jay Weiner, from “Continuing 2008 election fallout: Minneapolitan says she was confused but pleads guilty to voting illegally”