Republican Secretary of State Mary Kiffmeyer directed that tribal ID cards could not be used for voter identification by Native Americans living off reservations. ....Newly obtained documents and interviews with government officials suggest that what displeased some of his superiors and GOP politicians was...his actions on Indian voting.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/monthly/2007_05.php and.
http://minnesotaindependent.com/25971/gop-no-voter-fraud-in-minnesotaTo stamp out voter fraud, GOP legislators have offered a proposal that would make Minnesota’s voter-ID laws the most restrictive in the country. But according to their own party, no actual cases of voter fraud have been reported here. Still Reps. Tom Emmer, R-Delano, and Mary Kiffmeyer, R-Big Lake, have sponsored a bill requiring photo identification for every voter.
The Republican National Committee’s Minnesota voter fraud Web page announced, “There are no recent documented reports of vote fraud in this state.” And that’s with a recount of 2.9 million votes that took four months to scrutinize Minnesota’s election system.
But that hasn’t stopped Emmer or Kiffmeyer. “Voters want to know that their contribution to our enduring democracy will not be cancelled out through fraud or abuse,” wrote Emmer in a January opinion piece in the Pioneer Press. Kiffmeyer said at a late-January press conference on the bill that Minnesota’s voting system is vulnerable to fraudulent attacks unless a photo ID system is instituted.
“Mary Kiffmeyer should know better,” Hamline University professor David Schultz wrote today. “During her tenure as secretary of state she was unable to document any serious or widespread voter fraud. If fraud did exist, there is no indication that the current laws are ill-equipped to address the problem.”
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=post&forum=160&topic_id=38863&mesg_id=38863On election day 2006, Kiffmeyer supported a decision by local election judges to not allow some University of Minnesota students that lived near the campus to register to vote because they had inadequate proof of residence. A Hennepin County judge overuled this decision the same day, but it was unclear how many of the students returned to the polls.<3>
and who can forget one of the most bizarre attempst to make sure people didn't get out and vote,
she issued a memo to all the county election judges:
warnings point to Minnesota Secretary of State Mary Kiffmeyer's effort to raise terrorism awareness as an example of how election security measures could chill turnout. Kiffmeyer (R) gave local election officials fliers that warned voters to watch for unattended packages, vehicles "riding low on springs" and "homicide bombers."
Bombers may have a "shaved head or short hair," "smell of unusual herbal/flower water or perfume," wear baggy clothes or appear to be whispering to themselves, the flier warned.
Several local election officials were outraged over what they saw as an attempt to discourage voting with excessively dire warnings and stereotyping descriptions that could single out voters from specific religious, racial or ethnic groups for harassment. They refused to distribute the fliers.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/news_cut/archive/2008/10/minnesota_majority_under_the_m.shtmland let us not forget Kiffmeyer's dabbling in Banking.. with a Jesus touch
"Riverview Community Bank, an Otsego bank that bet heavily on real estate and was known for mixing Christian faith with finance, has been ordered by federal regulators to clean up its lending practices.
A quick search informs us that this bank is actually owned by former Secretary of State, and current State Representative Mary Kiffmeyer. In fact, Kiffmeyer is not only a director of the Riverview Community Bank, she's the owner. "
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