As the 2024 election approaches, here's what to know about ballot tracking, vote-by-mail deadlines, and finding your polling site in Minnesota.

There are about 100 races on Minnesota’s election ballots that won’t get that much attention, and they’re all about judgeships. Coming up Friday at noon, MPR News politics editor and his guests talk about judicial elections and why they’re different here than in other states.

Analysts say national polls that show how tight the race is between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are not key indicators ahead of the election.Instead, they say your focus should be on polls in the swing states since the winner of the presidency is not determined by the popular vote,

With the 2024 election less than a month away, new data illustrates which states across the U.S. tend to be the most politically engaged.

In the four weeks since Sept. 20, 716,858 absentee and mail ballots have been distributed and 337,633 have been cast in Minnesota.

MinnPost is tracking fundraising by both campaign committees and independent expenditure groups, and Democrats are outspending Republicans.

Newly implemented laws in MN span topics across public safety, civil rights, environmental protections and more, but election laws are top of mind leading to Nov. 5.

St. Olaf College boasted an 87.6% voter turnout rate in 2020, taking home the top prize in the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge as the most civically engaged college campus in the country. The small liberal arts college reached that number with help from its “election ambassador program,” and this year, it is looking to break its own record.

While all seats in the Minnesota House of Representatives are on the ballot this fall, just a fraction are taking up the focus and much of the fundraising for the major parties.

But the stakes are higher than just a trip to the State Capitol for Democrat Ann Johnson Stewart and Republican Kathleen Fowke. The outcome of special election in Senate District 45 will decide control of the Minnesota Legislature's upper body.

A state law requires each county in Minnesota select election judges from lists provided by the Republican and Democratic parties. A lawsuit claims Hennepin County violated state statute by not selecting judges from a GOP list.