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Mike Mulcahy

Daily Digest: Early voting popular in Minnesota

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Good morning, and happy Friday. With just four days now until Election Day, the end is near. But many people in Minnesota and around the country have already voted. Here's the Digest.

1. If you forgot there's a proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot this year, you're not alone. It involves who gets to set pay for state legislators. Here's some background you should read before you vote. (MPR News)

2. With all the dueling TV ads in the 2nd District Congressional race it's easy to look past the issues in the race. Where do Democrat Angie Craig and Republican Jason Lewis stand on the economy, health care, entitlement programs and defense? (Pioneer Press)

3. More than 415,000 people have already voted in Minnesota. In Hennepin County the number has already surpassed 134,000.  At one early voting site in south Minneapolis, people reported waiting up to an hour before they culd cast a ballot.  The Plymouth city clerk reported over 900 people in one day at her location earlier this week. In anticipation of high demand, the city of Minneapolis increased the number of early voting sites from one to four. (MPR News)

4. When he was in Eau Claire the other day Donald Trump told people if they were having buyer's remorse about an early vote they should cancel it and recast their vote. The deadline to do that in Minnesota has already passed. It's a little hard to get a handle on how many people may have changed early votes, but election officials say it's pretty rare. (AP via MPR News)

5. U.S. officials believe hackers from Russia or somewhere else may be planning to disrupt the election. From this story: Officials are alert for any attempts to create Election Day chaos, and say steps are being taken to prepare for worst-case scenarios, including a cyber-attack that shuts down part of the power grid or the internet. But what is more likely, multiple U.S. officials say, is a lower-level effort by hackers from Russia or elsewhere to peddle misinformation by manipulating Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms. (NBC News)