Article Title
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1965
Keywords
Contested elections; Elections; Governors--Election.
Abstract
ABSTRACT - In the election recount for the governorship of Minnesota in 1962, 1,423 ballots out of 772,994 paper ballots cast (0.18%) were ultimately ruled invalid. Of these, 51.6% were voted for Rolv.aag, the DFL candidate, although 9,981 fewer paper ballots were cast for him than for Andersen, his Republican opponent. Still this was not a sufficiently greater rate of invalidity to cancel Rolvaag's initial lead of 133 vot-es established by a physical recount of all ballots-he had a final plurality of 91. Rolvaag won because more· voters voted for him. Andersen would not have won even if all ballots had been ruled valid.
First Page
209
Last Page
215
Recommended Citation
Backstrom, C. H.
(1965).
Error in the Minnesota Gubernatorial Election of 1962.
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science, Vol. 32 No.3, 209-215.
Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/jmas/vol32/iss3/12
Primo Type
Article