Minnesotans vote on Super Tuesday, March 3


Minnesota voters will head to the polls on Tuesday, March 3, to select either a Democratic or Republican presidential candidate.

Minnesota is among the 14 states casting ballots on Super Tuesday, states that together comprise 40 percent of the U.S. population.

The other Super Tuesday states are Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont and Virginia.

Seventeen of Pipestone County’s 22 precincts are mail ballot precincts, with those voters having already received their ballots. 

The mail ballot precincts are Aetna, Altona, Burke, Eden, Elmer, Fountain Prairie, Grange, Gray, Osborn, Rock, Sweet and Troy townships, and the cities of Hatfield, Holland, Ihlen, Ruthton and Woodstock.

All polling places for the March 3 primary will be open from 7 a.m. – 8 p.m., and will be located as follows:

•City of Edgerton, Edgerton Emergency Services, 230 Mill St. E.

•City of Jasper, Jasper Memorial Hall, 101 Wall St. E.

•Both Pipestone Precinct 1 & 2, St. Leo Church, 415 Hiawatha Ave. S.

•City of Trosky, 220 Broadway St. S.

•All other precincts, including mail ballot precincnts, that choose to vote in person: Pipestone County Courthouse, Community Room, 416 Hiawatha Ave. S.

There is only one candidate on the Republican ballot: Pres. Donald J. Trump. 

For the Demcrats, at stake on Super Tuesday are 1,357 delegates, which represents almost half the 3,979 total delegates.

A candidate must win more than half of the 3,979 delegates, or 1,991, to secure the Democratic nomination before the convention.

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