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Minnesota City Approves New Voting Precinct with No Voters
- The St. Cloud City Council created a new voting precinct with no registered voters to address an issue caused by a 2021 land swap between Sartell and St. Cloud.
- Before the land swap, District 13B was contiguous, but the swap left an isolated parcel in LeSauk Township, violating the legal requirement for districts to be contiguous.
- City Clerk Seth Kauffman explained that the Secretary of State's Office found the parcel was mislabeled, causing the noncontiguity, and suggested creating a new precinct, Ward 2 Precinct 8, to resolve the issue.
- The new precinct, Ward 2 Precinct 8, will be combined with Ward 2 Precinct 2 for elections, using minimal ballots and items as suggested by the Secretary of State's Office.
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St. Cloud City Council approves new precinct with no registered voters
ST. CLOUD — The St. Cloud City Council created a new voting precinct — albeit with no registered voters — at its meeting on Monday night, April 6, to curtail an issue stemming from a land swap that occurred years ago. The land swap, between the cities of Sartell and St. Cloud, was initiated in 2021, near Central Fields in north St. Cloud. "The Secretary of State's Office, during one of their required checks, had found a parcel that had been, say…
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