Municipalities authorized to designate additional precincts for postelection review.

This bill allows municipalities in Minnesota to request that county election officials conduct additional postelection reviews of specific voting precincts. Under the new rules, a city or town can ask for up to twice the standard number of precincts to be audited and must pay for the extra costs. If a municipality does not make this request, the county will continue to select the required number of precincts randomly as it currently does. The law sets minimum review numbers based on the total number of registered voters in each county and ensures that at least one reviewed precinct had over 150 votes cast.