Absentee voting for Minn. primary tops '06, '02
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Nearly 22,000 voters have cast absentee ballots ahead of Tuesday's primary, a level of absentee turnout that already tops the last two gubernatorial elections.
Secretary of State Mark Ritchie said elections officials had accepted 21,703 absentee ballots as of Friday morning. Absentee voting continues on Saturday and Monday.
Ritchie says the turnout is encouraging and shows that voters are planning for the earlier primary this year. It's a month early under a new law designed to give military and overseas voters more time to vote.
Democratic voters are picking a gubernatorial nominee in a high-profile race between former U.S. Sen. Mark Dayton, former legislator Matt Entenza and House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher.
(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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