State canvassing board brown bags it during Tuesday’s meeting
It’s in the bag.
Secretary of State Mark Ritchie at a press conference on Tuesday (Nov. 18) sounded apologetic about the use of a bag instead of a fish bowl or some other container for the state canvassing board to draw lots.
“I tried desperately to think of something less campy,” said Ritchie.
He told of a story that when Minnesota Supreme Court Associate Justice Alan Page, a former Viking, tried to draw a lot from a fish bowl he got his hand stuck.
Anyway, the brown bag now could become part of the state political folklore, Ritchie suggested.
Board members were drawing lots as part of a random audit process.