Minnesota Electoral College Meets Monday: Livestream

TWIN CITIES, MN — Minnesota's Electoral College members will meet Monday at noon in the executive chamber of the Minnesota State Capitol to cast their votes for President and Vice President of the United States.

On Dec. 3, Gov. Tim Walz signed 21 Certificates of Election: 10 for Minnesota's presidential electors, 10 for Minnesota's alternate presidential electors, and one for Minnesota's 2020 U.S. Senate election.

Minnesota's 10 electoral votes were won by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Biden beat President Donald Trump by more than 233,000 votes in the state.

The vote will come will Monday while Republicans loyal to Trump continue a long-shot effort to overturn the election.

Patch will carry a livestream of the electoral college vote in Minnesota.

Minnesota Republicans were unsuccessful in their attempt to overturn the state election results. On Dec. 4, the Minnesota Supreme Court became the latest jurisdiction to hand a defeat to Republicans.

In her opinion, Minnesota Chief Justice Lorie Skjerven Gildea said the Republican petitioners failed to meet the basic requirements of filing a case before the court.

"Petitioners were required to serve county election officials with a copy of the petition. Serving the Secretary of State, alone, does not suffice," she wrote.

"At the very least, petitioners should have served the petition on the specific county officials named in their petition and supporting affidavits. These election officials, not the Secretary of State, have direct knowledge of the facts regarding the postelection reviews conducted after the November 3 election and, thus, are in the best position to respond to the allegations in the petition."

The state canvassing board voted to make the results of Minnesota's 2020 general election official on Nov. 24.

The Republican petitioners, which included U.S. House candidate Tyler Kistner, argued that the court should delay the certification of the Minnesota election "until a complete, bipartisan, statewide audit of the election occurs."

Minnesota voting records

Close to 3.3 million Minnesotans — or 79.96 percent of those eligible — voted in 2020 general election. It was the state's highest percentage turnout since 1956, and Minnesota's highest total number of voters ever for an election.

More than 1.9 million Minnesotans cast absentee ballots this year, while the other voters cast their ballots in person.