Max Hailperin

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Minnesota Statewide Reporting Statistics for August 11, 2026, showing Estimated Voters: 193,884 with 0 in the first three counties
Statutory text showing that agent delivery for those with "incapacitating health reasons" etc. "must be returned to the county auditor or municipal clerk no later than 8:00 p.m. on election day"
Statutory text highlighting "If delivered in person, the signature envelope must be submitted to the county auditor or municipal clerk by 5:00 p.m. on election day."
Subd. 3.Premature disclosure of count results. No count results from any precinct shall be disclosed by any election judge or other individual until all count results from that precinct are available, nor shall the public media disclose any count results from any precinct before the time when voting is scheduled to end in the state. Count results from absentee ballots received by the county after 3:00 p.m. on election day may be added to the total count results after the initial results reporting of the precinct. If the precinct results do not include all absentee ballots, the county must report to the secretary of state and on the county's website the number of absentee ballots remaining to be processed. After processing the remaining ballots, the county must post on the county's website how many of the remaining ballots were accepted and added to the totals and how many were rejected and therefore not counted.
Statutory text highlighting "Signature envelopes received on election day after 8:00 p.m. shall be marked as received late by the county auditor or municipal clerk, and must not be delivered to the ballot board."
Beige house with cream colored garage doors
Beige house with two blue garage doors and the street number 1605 on a balcony
Scatter plot of Minnesota Primary and General Election Turnout from 1980 through 2024. The primary-election points occupy the lower portion of the chart and the general-election points the upper portion, rising in presidential years and falling in midterms
Line chart of in-person early voting, restricted to recent days, showing a slight down-turn in the most recent day, which the accompanying box shows to be August 8, 2026, with 844. (It also shows 300 mail votes and 46 other, for a total of 1,190.)
Each ballot record in SVRS has an associated status. Once a particular ballot has been accepted, it can’t be accepted again — so there’s no possibility for double voting, even if someone were to photocopy a label. And if a ballot gets lost, there’s no problem issuing a replacement to the same voter — it is assigned a new ID number and the old one is marked with a status of “lost or spoiled.” That way, only the replacement can be accepted — the old one is rendered harmless.
The barcode on the signature-envelope label is just a labor-saving way for the elections office to look up the SVRS ballot record when they receive the envelope. If the barcode scanner weren’t working, the elections office could look the record up by typing the number in. The essential point is this: They do look it up. So even counterfeiting a realistic-looking label wouldn’t help you get a ballot counted: There needs to be a genuine record of the ballot having been sent out.
Nor can you just create your own signature envelope. The elections office will only accept one they previously sent you. They’re looking for the label they put on before sending the signature envelope to you. That label contains your name and address. But it also contains an identifying code number linked in the Statewide Voter Registration System (SVRS) to the specific ballot transmittal.
When an absentee ballot arrives at a local elections office for counting, it’s not like a ballot deposited in a polling-place ballot box. At the polling place, the ballot is cast with no physically associated paperwork for context — all the record-keeping was done earlier, when the voter signed in. By contrast, if you were to somehow get your hands on a blank ballot, fill it out, and mail it on its own to the elections office, they’d set it aside uncounted. They only accept a ballot if it arrives inside a completed signature envelope.
Citywide early vote 15,551 Mail 5,886 In-Person 7,581 Other 2,084
Line chart of in-person eary votes by day with the last five data points circled to illustrate their rising trend
Column chart of 42 vs 40
Vote Here, 980 E Hennepin, Minneapolis Elections and Voter Services
Witches hat tower in Prospect Park
Text of 2025 Minnesota Statutes section 203B.04, Application for Ballots, subdivision 1, Application procedures, paragraph (a), with highlighting of the following: "an application for absentee ballots for any election may be submitted at any time not less than one day before the day of that election."
AI slop of "Meet Mary at the Benton County Fair," emphasizing "Our booth is at the Sports Arena East Building" with an arrow away from a building signed "Sports Arena East Building"
201.225 ELECTRONIC ROSTER AUTHORIZATION. §Subdivision 1.Authority. A county, municipality, or school district may use electronic rosters for any election. In a county, municipality, or school district that uses electronic rosters, the head elections official may designate that some or all of the precincts use electronic rosters. An electronic roster must comply with all of the requirements of this section. An electronic roster must include information required in section 201.221, subdivision 3, and any rules adopted pursuant to that section.
Witness section of Minnesota absentee ballot signature envelope (version for registered voters) with highlighted text "I am at least 18 years of age on or before the day of the election and a citizen of the United States, or am a notary, or am authorized to give oaths."
Data table starting with Hennepin County accepting 12,074 mailed ballots from an estimated mailout of 46,970, which is 25.71%
Scatter plot of accepted mailed ballots vs. estimated mailout with linear fit of 0.257*x + -162 with R^2 = 0.987
Ad: "Meth. We're on it."
Headline: "Trump Threatens to Withdraw Blanche as Attorney General, Dealing Blow to Nomination" Summary: "President Trump’s threat followed a day of fruitless negotiations with two Republican holdouts, Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis."
Citywide early votes 7,000. Mail 3,522. In-Person 2,490. Other 988.
Sample absentee ballot transmittal envelope with green highlighting of where the phone number and email address would be at the bottom of the return address
Max standing next to a highway sign for "Max" with an arrow pointing at him
Screenshot of web site separately listing requests for accepted absentee ballot lists and early voting lists
Chart of In-person early votes by day with a big upturn at the end
Porch with spray painted depiction of the US flag
Screenshot of post from John Nagel for Congress MN-5: "Early voting kicks off today, so you can head out and cast your ballot if you live in Hennepin County, which includes Minneapolis, Brooklyn Center, Crystal, Golden Valley, New Hope, Richfield, Robbinsdale, Saint Anthony, Saint Louis Park, Fort Snelling, and part of Edina. If you feel the people you’ve been voting for have let your tax money be stolen, allowed schools to deteriorate, weakened law enforcement, failed to prosecute criminals, and let dangerous offenders walk free, you have better options. This November, you have the chance to vote for who you truly want on the ballot. When you’re selecting your governor and attorney general candidates, look for the name Nagel under Congress. I’m ready to help Minnesota—if you’re willing to help a fellow Minnesotan."
Selfie with "I voted early" sticker
Map showing the two mile distance between the Central High locations
Detail from an Angie Craig graphic showing her having raised $2.65 million to Michele Tafoya's $2.62 million, but even though that is only 1% larger, the column chart has a column that is 9% larger.
The full ad
Detail of campaign ad featuring mutant flag of "MINNESOTOR"
Screenshot showing DPV code S when the secondary number (101) is not verified.
Drawing accompanying patent 2,262,513
Building with "M.L. Novack Diamonds" billboard on roof and "M L Novack" on facade
The Lost Opportunity I will close with the lost opportunity. Maintaining clean voter rolls is important. Even if the best evidence indicates that noncitizens on the rolls are rare, some people acting in good faith continue to worry about the issue. And when noncitizens are inadvertently added to the rolls, the consequences for them can be serious. There are people across the election-administration world who know how to address this problem responsibly, or at least are ready to roll up their sleeves and work through it. Unfortunately, the current political environment has made that kind of consensus harder to sustain. But that is a post for another day.
Map of Minneapolis Warehouse Historic District
Detail showing incorrect placement of stars on supposed US flag
Lindell and Parrish campaign ad
Map showing the streets and houses in this area
55423 contains a tiny bit of Minneapolis whether Highway 62, the zip code boundary, bends away from 62nd Street, the city boundary.
Screenshot of footnote 1: "In 2016, the legislature did approve an alternative procedure for absentee balloting that permitted county auditors to make a ballot counter and ballot box available for a voter to insert their ballot without using an envelope. Minn. Stat. § 203B.081, subd. 3. But as of 2024, approximately half of counties had not made use of this procedure, and it is no longer available in elections covered by early voting. Id., subd. 1a. "
Screenshot including the text "England are fortunate to remain level with Norway ...."
Detail from ad highlighting the supposed locomotive with smoke billowing out of spots on each side, not the smokestack in the middle
Lindell and Parrish campaign ad
Screenshot of the dashboard
Data table showing, among others, Hennepin County at 8.21% estimate return rate, Dakota County 9.57%, Washington County 8.09%, and Anoka County 8.47%
A white haired woman wearing glasses straightens a tray of envelopes that contain ballots. She is in a yellow circle on a blue background. Text reads: Now Hiring: Absentee Voting Team Member. Open 7/6. Apply by 7/19. The Minneapolis Elections and Voter Services logo is centered in the middle. Text running along the bottom reads "Find out more via link in post"
Excerpt regarding counties' use of Minnesota Department of Health data on deceased individuals
Exhibit 2.5: Identity Verification Rates of New Applications; includes in particular 52,000 in-person election day registrations who proved residence using a Minnesota driver's license and had a 100% rate of identity verification and 11,800 who used a driver's license plus utility or bank bill and had a 96% rate
cover of Voter Registration 2026 Evaluation Report