James O'Keefe tries to register Tim Tebow and Tom Brady.

​Right-wing prankster James O'Keefe, known best for hidden-camera takedown of ACORN, is taking on Minnesota's voter ID laws.

O'Keefe and Project Veritas released a video earlier this week in which they try to register Tim Tebow and Tom Brady with some not-so-football-savvy Minnesota officials. At one point, one Scott County employee (who we imagine is having an unpleasant week at work) admits that election officials often complain that they can only catch voter fraud "after the fact."

"It's like, change the law! Change the law!" she says.

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Two special elections for legislative seats happen tonight in Minneapolis.

​"Election 2012" doesn't just refer to November 6.

Ready or not, two Minnesota legislative seats, both in Minneapolis, are actually up for grabs tonight. One is House District 61B, which includes the south Minneapolis neighborhoods of Whittier, Lyndale, Kingfield, Central, Bryant, Regina, Field, and Powderhorn. The other is Senate District 59, which includes Northeast, the University of Minnesota area, Cedar-Riverside, Como, and Prospect Park.

How likely is a conservative to win in either of those areas? Put it this way -- I'd put my money on the Vikings to win the Super Bowl next year.

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Reps. Mary Kiffmeyer and Mike Benson want to see your ID

​Two Republican legislators are pushing bills that would require voters to bring photo IDs to the polls. Both bills are slated for a hearing at the House Government Operations and Elections Committee Thursday morning.

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Everything's comin' up Bachmann.

​A newly reelected Michele Bachmann has just announced, via Facebook, that she is running for Chairman of the House Republican Conference, the No. 4 spot in the GOP power structure.

It's just the latest development in the "Grizzly Mama ascension" narrative. Unlike.

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Time for a recount re-match.

​The Republicans couldn't beat Al Franken in the 2008 U.S. Senate election that stretched into the 2009 recount, and they've been after Secretary of State Mark Ritchie ever since.

He ran a biased and incompetent recount, they insisted. He gave us "felons for Franken" voting against Norm Coleman.

But the Democrat won another term last night anyway with a 49-45 percent victory over Republican Dan Severson. His reward? He may get to run another recount.

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The race up north.

​By the time we cut out early this morning, the Republicans were on their way to historic sweep in the House of Representatives, tossing out Democrats by the fistful. But  as the dust settled in seven out of the eight Minnesota congressional races, exactly nothing changed. More >>

Republicans sweep the legislature?

​In all the talk of a GOP surge in congress and a close governor's race, there wasn't a whole lot of consideration that Republicans might actually take control of both chambers of the legislature. Surprise! That's now looking like a serious possibility.More >>

Election Integrity Watch got its wires crossed.

​It was a relatively peaceful day of poll-watching by a conservative group that appointed itself Election Day big brother...aside from a few hilarious blips.

All that the volunteers of Election Integrity Watch wanted was to make sure that voting stayed legal. (Not that that's ever been a problem here before.) But the group--comprised of Minnesota Majority, Minnesota Voters Alliance, Freedom Council and the Northstar Tea Party Patriots--was obsessed.

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Ready, steady Betty -- no surprises in District 4.

​Rep. Betty McCollum has won a decisive victory in the 4th Congressional District against Republican Teresa Collett with 99 percent of the precincts reporting.

Since this outcome was so unsurprising we figured we'd ask -- did anything about this time around surprise McCollum?

"There was a lack of respect and lack of decency in the way that some of the Tea Party representatives attended rallies and conducted themselves," she says.

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Ellison swept his opponents off the map

​Keith Ellison is going back to Congress. The 5th District incumbent dispatched his Republican challenger, newcomer Joel Demos, with such a wide margin of victory that you might consider it poor sportsmanship: 67-24 percent.More >>