{"id":98,"date":"2026-03-24T12:34:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwvmankatoarea.org\/?p=98"},"modified":"2026-03-24T12:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:55:13","slug":"sec-of-state-steve-simon-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lwvmankatoarea.org\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"Sec. of State Steve Simon Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Secretary of State Steve Simon was in Mankato at the VINE Adult Community Center on February 13 to speak about voter registration and election safeguards and security.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He called Minnesota &#8220;the champion of voter turnout nationally&#8221; because of good laws, a good voting culture, accessibility, and tested, effective security protocols.\u00a0 He detailed the many layers of scrutiny a voter registration goes through before a voter&#8217;s name is placed on the Statewide Voter Registration System.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, he referenced the State Voter Registration\/Elections website, which has a wealth of material about the ways in which voter registrations are processed and elections are secured.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Secretary Simon makes it a point to visit every one of Minnesota&#8217;s 87 counties at least once every year to connect\u00a0with Minnesotans.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information on voting and elections, go to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/mnvotes.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mnvotes.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Steve Simon was in Mankato at the VINE Adult Community Center on February 13 to speak about voter registration and election safeguards and security.\u00a0 He called Minnesota &#8220;the champion of voter turnout nationally&#8221; because of good laws, a good voting culture, accessibility, and tested, effective security protocols.\u00a0 He detailed the many layers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwvmankatoarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwvmankatoarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwvmankatoarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwvmankatoarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwvmankatoarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lwvmankatoarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwvmankatoarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwvmankatoarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwvmankatoarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwvmankatoarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}