VOT E NON PARTISAN VOTERS GUIDE 2020

2020 GENERAL ELECTION • NOVEMBER 3, 2020

1 NONPARTISAN VOTERS GUIDE 2020 To Be Eligible to Vote New Rules for Absentee Ballots in You Must: To minimize direct contact with others, the CDC is recommending that everyone vote early and vote by mail. To request an absentee ballot online, go to mnvotes.org. A ballot will be sent to you as soon as they are ready. Due to COVID-19, no witness is needed if you are a registered voter.

1 Be at least 18 years old on Election Day If you are not registered to vote when you request your absentee ballot, a voter registration form will be sent to you with your ballot to also complete and return. You will need a witness to verify 2 Be a citizen of the your residency. 3 Have resided in Minnesota for 20 days prior to Election Day Because of the volume of votes expected, you are encouraged to return your ballot as soon as it is 4 Have any felony conviction record discharged, expired or completed filled out. Ballots should be mailed at least 10 days before the election.

5 Not be under court-ordered guardianship where a court has revoked your voting rights BALLOT ASSISTANCE 6 Not have been ruled legally incompetent by a court of law Beginning September 18, you can ask almost anyone to help you vote, drop off, or mail your absentee ballot. This person can help drop off or mail ballots for no more than three people.

Between October 27 and November 3, in some narrow circumstances (such as living in a nursing For Election Information home) an “agent” can pick up your blank ballot from the county, bring it to you to complete, and For the most up-to-date information about registering to vote, requesting a voter registration then mail it or drop it off for you. The ballot must be picked up no later than 2pm on November 3. form or absentee ballot, locating your polling place, or identifying the candidates, go to the website The deadline for returning your ballot on November 3 is 3pm. Return your ballot to of the Minnesota Secretary of State: mnvotes.org. You can also call 651-215-1440, or 311, or Elections & Voter Services or to Hennepin County Elections office. Go to mnvotes.org to see if you email [email protected]. If you participate in Minnesota’s Safe at Home Address and your agent qualify and to understand the process. Confidentiality Program do not register online, but contact Safe Home at 1-866-723-3035. If you need materials in other languages and alternate formats, go to mnvotes.org for contact You can also go to LWVMpls.org and Vote411.org for election information you need, brought to information and phone numbers. you by the League of Women Voters Education Fund. Vote411 election information is provided in English and Spanish (candidate information in English only). VOTE EARLY IN PERSON If you don’t want to mail your absentee ballot, you can drop it off in person between September 18 and November 2 at Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services at 980 East Hennepin Ave., Monday- Deadlines Friday between 8 am and 4:30 pm, or at Hennepin County Elections on the skyway level of the Hennepin County Government Center, 300 South 6th St. (check for times, as they may vary). If you need to update your voter registration, be sure to bring proof of residence. Absentee ballots VOTER REGISTRATION DEADLINES cannot be dropped off at polling places on election day. October 13 Register to vote online or by mail through October 13, 2020. November 3 Register in person with proof of residence through November 3, 2020. ELECTION DAY POLLING CHANGES Because of COVID-19 many polling places will change. To confirm your polling location, go to pollfinder.sos.state.mn.us. You can also call 651-215-1440, or Safe at Home at 651-201-1399. VOTING DEADLINES September 18 Early voting in person or by mail begins on September 18, 2020. (You may register at the same time with proof of residence.)

November 3 Absentee ballots must be postmarked by election day, November 3, 2020, and will continue to be counted until November 10, 2020.

2 NONPARTISAN VOTERS GUIDE 2020 LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MINNEAPOLIS | LWVMPLS.ORG 3 How to Vote From Home Be an Informed Voter— Know the Candidates

1 Register U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES Get registered today. If you are not registered yet, you can request a paper registration form and an absentee ballot at the same time (see step 2). They can be completed and returned together. JOE BIDEN DONALD TRUMP (INCUMBENT) We recommend you register online before requesting your absentee Vice Presidential Candidate: Kamala Harris Vice-Presidential Candidate: Mike Pence ballot, so that you do not need to find a witness. Party: Democrat Party: Republican

HOWIE HAWKINS KANYE WEST 2 Request an Absentee Ballot Vice-Presidential Candidate: Vice-Presidential Candidate: Michelle Tidball In order to vote from home, you must request an absentee ballot. We recommend Angela Nicole Walker Party: Birthday Party / Independent that you complete and return your request form as soon as possible, but at least Party: Green two weeks before Election Day.

JO JORGENSEN Vote! Vice-Presidential Candidate: Spike Cohen 3 Party: Libertarian ASSEMBLE YOUR BALLOT MATERIALS • Once you complete your ballot, place it in the tan envelope. • Place the tan envelope into the white signature envelope. You must U.S. SENATE complete and sign the white signature envelope. If you are also registering to vote, a witness must complete the witness signature box (see above). (INCUMBENT) KEVIN O’CONNOR • Place the white signature envelope into the white mailing envelope. Party: DFL Party: Legal Now Party Campaign Website: smith.senate.gov Campaign Website: Return Your Ballot Candidate Profile: Tina Smith has a law degree legalmarijuananowparty.com/candidates-1 MAIL YOUR BALLOT from Stanford University, worked at General Candidate Profile: Kevin O’Connor has a Mail your ballot back to your local election office using the large mailing Mills and started her own business. After varied background of business, military, envelope provided with it. This envelope is pre-addressed and does not serving as Chief of Staff for both Mayor R.T. and volunteerism. He supports the medicinal need a stamp. Rybak and Governor , she was use of and any other plant which can elected as Dayton’s Lieutenant Governor, be beneficial for the health of people without DELIVER BY HAND & VOTE EARLY IN PERSON where she worked on tax fairness, tackling interference by the government. He feels these When delivered by hand, your ballot must be returned to the election office health care costs and prescription drug prices. decisions, and others, are the responsibility of address on the return envelope by November 3 at 3pm. If you drop off a ballot for She continues to work on early education and each individual to make. someone else, you must show identification with name and signature. Absentee rural broadband. She has served in the U.S. ballots may not be dropped off at a polling location. Senate since 2018. OLIVER STEINBERG Party: Grassroots-Legalize Cannabis JASON LEWIS Campaign Website: jackherershero.org Track Your Ballot Party: Republican Candidate Profile: Oliver Steinberg supports You can track the status of your ballot at Campaign Website: lewisformn.com the green new deal, campaign finance reform, mnvotes.sos.state.mn.us/AbsenteeBallotStatus.aspx. Candidate Profile: Jason Lewis has a master’s and single-payer healthcare. He supports degree in political science. He served as the constitutional amendments that say corpora- U.S. Representative for Minnesota’s 2nd tions are not people and money is not speech; CELEBRATE & SHARE congressional district from 2017 to 2019, the abolition of the Electoral College; the where he worked on tax cuts, regulatory outlawing of monopolies; and data privacy Share your participation by posting a digital “I Voted” sticker on social reform and juvenile justice. He worked in giving exclusive ownership of data to media and encouraging people you know to vote from home as well! business and broadcasting as a radio talk show individuals, not corporations. Digital stickers can be downloaded from lwvmn.org/vote-from-home. host, political commentator and writer before entering Congress.

4 NONPARTISAN VOTERS GUIDE 2020 LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MINNEAPOLIS | LWVMPLS.ORG 5 MARY HOLMBERG BRUCE LUNDEEN U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - DISTRICT 5 Party: Republican Party: Republican Candidate Website: unknown Candidate Website: https://bit.ly/32huG7n (INCUMBENT) in information technology, systems develop- Candidate Profile: The Republican primary Candidate Profile: Bruce Lundeen Party: DFL ment, and engineering. He has also worked in for this office was cancelled. No additional graduated from the U of Massachusetts- Campaign Website: omar.house.gov computer programming and as an IT solutions biographical information was found. Amherst. He served in the Marine Corps from Candidate Profile: Born in , Ilhan Omar consultant. He has served as program director 1968-1972. He has worked as a tour boat moved to Minneapolis in 1997 and worked for Hospitality House and as a trustee of New District 61 captain and as the owner of his own refrigera- tion, air conditioning and heating company. as a community educator at the U of M, was a Salem Missionary Baptist Church. D. SCOTT DIBBLE (INCUMBENT) He has run in campaigns for the MN House, policy fellow at the Humphrey School of Public Party: DFL MN Senate, and Minneapolis City Council. Affairs, and served as Senior Policy Aide for MICHAEL MOORE Candidate Website: scottdibble.com the Minneapolis City Council. In 2016 she was Party: Legal Marijuana Now Party Candidate Profile: Scott Dibble has been a elected to the MN House. Omar has served in Campaign Website: movement organizer since the 1980s as an District 63 the U.S. House since 2018, where she is legalmarijuananowparty.com/candidates-1 activist with ACT-UP, the Minnesota Human (INCUMBENT) a member of the Budget, Foreign Affairs and Candidate Profile: Michael Moore had Rights Act Amendment, and his work on the Party: DFL Education and Labor Committees. early success in athletics and attended the Neighborhood Transportation Network. Candidate Website: patriciatorresray.org U of M on a presidential scholarship. He later He was key in passing the Marriage Equality Candidate Profile: Patricia Torres Ray LACY JOHNSON turned his attention toward owning and and the Homeless Youth Acts. After one is Columbian-American and the first Latina Party: Republican managing a salon with multiple locations. term in the MN House he has served in the woman to serve in the MN Senate. A graduate Campaign Website: lacyjohnson.com He is now retired from private business, enjoys MN Senate since 2003. of the U of MN and the Humphrey School of Candidate Profile: Lacy Johnson has lived in being a husband and father, and is involved Public Affairs, she was first elected to the North Minneapolis for 40 years, and worked in his neighborhood. JENNIFER ZIELINSKI senate in 2006. Ray has worked on policy issues Party: Republican including immigrant rights, marriage equality, worker protections, public safety reform, MN SENATE DISTRICTS IN MINNEAPOLIS Candidate Website: unknown Candidate Profile: The Republican primary and education. for this office was cancelled. No additional District 59 Business. He has worked for several well- biographical information was found. DIANE NAPPER known Minnesota companies and is currently Party: Republican working for Hubbard Broadcasting as Director District 62 Candidate Website: nappermn63.com (INCUMBENT) of Corporate Information Services and Candidate Profile: Diane Napper was born Party: DFL Information Security. He has three grown and raised in Philadelphia and graduated from Party: DFL Campaign Website: children and six grandchildren. American University in Washington, D.C. Candidate Website: omarfateh.org facebook.com/SenBobbyJoeChampion/ Napper states that her top issues are public Candidate Profile: Omar Fateh is a Somali Candidate Profile: Bobby Joe Champion served safety, education, economic opportunity and District 60 immigrant who holds a master’s degree in in the MN House from 2009-2012 and the government waste/fraud. Napper owns (INCUMBENT) public administration and is running as a MN Senate from 2013 to the present. He is a Taurus Moon Graphic Design, LLC. She and Party: DFL Democratic Socialist activist. Fateh worked graduate of Macalester College and William her husband live in Nokomis East. Mitchell School of Law. Champion’s policy Candidate Website: kari4senate.com for the City of Minneapolis as a Community issues include job creation, housing, civil rights, Candidate Profile: Kari Dziedzic served Specialist and for the MN Department of as an aide for U.S. Senator . Transportation. He ran for MN House in 2018. education, and economic development. He is Party: She worked for Hennepin County as Fateh served as vice chair of the Hennepin Grassroots-Legalize Cannabis co-founder and director of the 2003 Grammy Candidate Website: communications director for the Hennepin County 2040 Comprehensive Plan Policy votewright.org nominated Excelsior Choir. Candidate Profile: County Attorney, then as policy aide for Advisory Committee. Chris Wright has been a County Commissioner Mark Stenglein. political activist for 32 years. He has organized Dziedzic has served in the MN Senate since 40 annual marches and rallies, run for congress Party: Republican 2012; her current policy issues include in 1988 and for Governor in 1998, 2010, and Candidate Website: updating state sexual harassment laws, 2014. He has worked on others’ campaigns paulandersonsenate59.com and safe and affordable housing. addressing climate change and the root causes Candidate Profile: Paul Anderson is a graduate of inequality, among other policy issues. of the U of M and the Carlson School of

6 NONPARTISAN VOTERS GUIDE 2020 LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MINNEAPOLIS | LWVMPLS.ORG 7 CALVIN LEE CARPENTER KURTIS FECHTMEYER MN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES DISTRICTS Party: Veterans Party Party: Republican IN MINNEAPOLIS Candidate Website: https://bit.ly/3jYQSZX Candidate Website: unknown Candidate Profile: Calvin Lee Carpenter is Candidate Profile: The Republican Primary running as a member of the Veterans Party, for this office was cancelled. No additional District 59A ALAN SHILEPSKY which states that it is neither conservative nor biographical information was found. Party: Republican liberal and that its platform is solutions-based, (INCUMBENT) Candidate Website: secure.winred.com/ not philosophy-based. District 61B Party: DFL alan-shilepsky-for-state-rep-59b-committee/ Candidate Website: fuelee.org (INCUMBENT) donate-today JOHN HOLMBERG Candidate Profile: Fue Lee is a community Party: DFL Candidate Profile: Alan Shilepsky has been Party: Republican organizer and activist of Hmong descent who Candidate Website: jamielong.com a lifelong political activist as a Democrat, Candidate Website: unknown was born in a refugee camp in Thailand. A Candidate Profile: Jamie Long has served in Independence Party (Reform Party) member, Candidate Profile: The Republican primary graduate of Carleton College, Lee was first the MN House since 2018. He is a lawyer who and a Republican. Trained in physics, public for this office was cancelled. No additional elected to the MN House in 2016. His policy previously worked in the U.S. Congress on policy analysis and economics, he is a database biographical information was found. issues include expanding educational oppor- energy, environmental and transportation developer and a community volunteer. policy. As a Representative, Long has worked tunities, eliminating economic disparities by District 60B supporting development projects, and reducing on bills regarding climate change, opportunity pollution for cleaner neighborhoods. LISA NEAL-DELGADO (INCUMBENT) gaps, equal education access, and access to Party: Green Party: DFL health and human services. He is married with Candidate Website: lisaformn59b.com MARCUS HARCUS Candidate Website: mohamudnoor.org two children. Candidate Profile: Lisa Neal-Delgado was Party: Grassroots-Legalize Cannabis Candidate Profile: Mohamud Noor born and raised in North Minneapolis, the Candidate Website: unknown was born in Somalia and immigrated to the LISA POHLMAN daughter of active union members. After a Candidate Profile: Marcus Harcus is a writer, U.S. in 1999. He has worked in community Party: Republican military service career of over 22 years, she social entrepreneur, organizer and artist. engagement, was executive director of Candidate Website: now works in criminal justice reform, and has He has worked for Neighborhoods Organizing the Confederation of Somali in Minnesota, facebook.com/LisaPHouse61/ co-chaired a Department of Justice-sponsored for Change (NOC), a grassroots organization and has a degree in computer science. He has Candidate Profile: The Republican primary Minneapolis Police and Community fighting for racial and economic justice. He is worked on environmental justice, affordable for this office was cancelled. No additional Engagement team. Neal-Delgado has been the founder of Full Legalization Minnesota. housing, public education and racial equity. biographical information for Lisa Pohlman active in the Northside Schools Collective for His party’s goal is to challenge the war on drugs He lives in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood was found. education reform. and support marijuana legalization efforts. with his wife and four children. District 62A District 60A District 59B District 61A (INCUMBENT) SYDNEY JORDAN (INCUMBENT) (INCUMBENT) Party: DFL Party: DFL Party: DFL Party: DFL Candidate Website: hodanforhouse.com Candidate Website: sydneyjordan.org Candidate Website: estheragbaje.com Candidate Website: frankhornstein.org Candidate Profile: Hodan Hassan immigrated Candidate Profile: Sydney Jordan is an Candidate Profile: Esther Agbaje was born and Candidate Profile: Frank Hornstein, a lifelong from Somalia more than 20 years ago. She is education, environmental and labor organizer. raised in Minnesota; her parents are Nigerian community organizer, has served in the MN a clinical social worker and a community She grew up in Illinois, the daughter of public immigrants. She holds a master’s degree in House since 2002. This past year, he worked organizer. Hassan works on policy issues employees. She is currently the state director public administration from the University of to increase funding for education and health including universal single payer health care, of the Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters. Pennsylvania and a degree from Harvard care and to address climate change. He also has racial justice, equity and inclusion, housing, Jordan previously was a union organizer with Law School. She volunteers with the worked to make infrastructure investments, climate change and environmental justice. the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers and Hennepin County Housing Court project, prevent gun violence, reform criminal justice, She is a single mother who lives in the Phillips sat on the Minneapolis Works Coalition. local environmental justice organizations ensure clean and fair elections, and protect Community with her son. and her church. a woman’s reproductive freedom. Hornstein is married with three children.

8 NONPARTISAN VOTERS GUIDE 2020 LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MINNEAPOLIS | LWVMPLS.ORG 9 ARJUN KATARIA DAVID WIESTER Party: Republican Party: Legal Marijuana Now MINNEAPOLIS SCHOOL BOARD Candidate Website: unknown Candidate Website: Candidate Profile: The Republican primary legalmarijuananowparty.com/candidates-1 At-Large NorthSide Commercial Real Estate Advisory for this office was cancelled. No additional Candidate Profile: David Wiester ran for MN Committee and was a member of Neon’s Board KIM ELLISON (INCUMBENT) biographical information was found. Senate with the Grassroots Party in 1996, of Directors for three years. supporting individual liberty. He is married, Candidate Website: board.mpls.k12.mn.us/kim_ellison_2 District 62B works as a surgical support specialist and is a District 4 member of the Service Employees International Candidate Profile: Kim Ellison worked as an (INCUMBENT) Union (SEIU). He has volunteered with executive assistant for Community Action from ADRIANA CERRILLO Party: DFL non-profit groups including pro-choice, 2008 to 2012. She worked as a teacher for Candidate Website: adrianacerrillo.com Candidate Website: aishagomez.com GLBT+, NORML, and the Liberal Gun Club. Guadalupe Alternative Programs from 1999 Candidate Profile: Adriana Cerrillo has her Candidate Profile: Aisha Gomez comes from to 2008. Ellison was first appointed to the own consulting business and works to support a mixed-heritage background and grew up on District 63B Minneapolis board of Education in 2012, and immigrants’ rights. She sits on the Emerson Minneapolis’ Southside. She was elected to first elected in 2013. All four of her children Spanish Immersion Learning Center site the MN House in 2018. Gomez has worked EMMA GREENMAN graduated from the school district. council. Cerrillo served as a family advocate on policy issues such as healthy and secure Party: DFL for Minnesota Comeback, now called Great communities, fair access to democracy and Candidate Website: emmagreenman.com MICHAEL DUENES Minnesota Schools, and sat on the Minneapolis citizenship, shaping an equitable economy, Candidate Profile: Emma Greenman grew up Candidate Website: michaelduenesmps.com Police Conduct Oversight Commission. restorative justice, and access to high quality, in South Minneapolis. She earned a law degree Candidate Profile: Michael Duenes has worked attainable schools. from the University of , Berkeley, as a senior policy analyst; a dean of liberal arts; CHRISTA MIMS and a master’s degree in public policy from the and a professor of political science, ethnic Candidate Website: christamims.com Harvard Kennedy School. After working on ROSS TENNESON studies, and Chicano/Latinx studies. He has Candidate Profile: Christa Mims is a social Paul Wellstone’s campaign, she spent fifteen Party: Republican created and led a college equity and diversity worker in Hennepin County’s child protection years as a community organizer and voting Candidate Website: unknown office, and served on the advisory council of system. She currently serves on the board of rights attorney. Currently Greenman is Candidate Profile: The Republican primary the Minnesota Education Equity Partnership. the Domestic Abuse Project and was selected Director of Voting Rights and Democracy at for this office was cancelled. No additional as a 2020 New Leaders Council Fellow. Mims the Center for Popular Democracy. biographical information was found. District 2 also serves as Education Domain Lead for racial disparity reduction work in Hennepin County. District 63A FRANK PAFKO KERRY JO FELDER (INCUMBENT) Party: Republican Candidate Website: (INCUMBENT) District 6 Candidate Website: facebook.com/Pafko63B/ facebook.com/kerryjo4schoolboard/ Party: DFL Candidate Profile: Pafko advanced from Candidate Profile: Kerry Jo Felder works as IRA JOURDAIN (INCUMBENT) Candidate Website: jimdavnie.com the Republican primary for this office. No a community and education organizer for the Candidate Website: Candidate Profile: Jim Davnie was first additional biographical information was found. Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation and board.mpls.k12.mn.us/ira_jourdain elected to the MN House in 2000. His policy as a field organizer for Minnesotans for a Fair Candidate Profile: Ira Jourdain, Board of issues include job creation, preserving the Education Director, is an enrolled member DENNIS SCHULLER Economy. She served as an education organizer environment, accessible health care, and tax for Neighborhoods Organizing for Change of the Red Lake Band of Ojibwe. A resident Party: Legal Marijuana Now fairness and relief. Davnie previously taught and is a board member. Felder is a founding of Kingfield in SW Minneapolis, he has four Candidate Website: social studies and has been active in numerous member of the Northside Schools Collective. children, two of whom attend Bancroft legalmarijuananowparty.com community organizations. He is a personal Elementary School where he volunteers and Candidate Profile: Dennis Schuller has owned finance educator for Lutheran Social Service serves on site councils. He has worked in DS Productions since 1996. His top priority SHARON EL-AMIN and is married with two children. human services as a Minnesota Family is ending cannabis prohibition in the right way. Candidate Website: sharon4schools.com Investment Program Manager. Schuller was a member of the Richfield Candidate Profile: Sharon El-Amin served as PENNY ARCOS Planning Commission for 6 years. He is President of North Polar Parent Organization Party: Republican married with one son. and currently is a member of the North High Candidate Website: unknown School Site Council. El-Amin, a business owner Candidate Profile: Arcos advanced from the for 15 years, sits on Phillips Foundation’s Republican primary. No additional biographical information was found.

10 NONPARTISAN VOTERS GUIDE 2020 LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MINNEAPOLIS | LWVMPLS.ORG 11 MINNESOTA JUDICIAL ELECTIONS

Minnesota Supreme Court (INCUMBENT) MICHELLE MACDONALD Candidate Website: paulthissen.com Candidate Website: macdonaldforjustice.com Candidate Profile: Paul Thissen served in the Candidate Profile: Michelle MacDonald is an Minnesota House of Representatives for 16 attorney concentrating on the areas of family years. He was appointed to the MN Supreme law, divorce, paternity, adoption, estate plan- Court by Governor Dayton in April, 2018. ning, and probate. She served as a judge of the Thissen earned his law degree from the Conciliation Court in Hennepin County from University of Chicago. His law career included 1999 to 2014 and as an adjunct referee of the work as a public defender, then in general family court from 1992 to 2012. She earned litigation and appellate work, and later in her law degree from Suffolk University. health care law.

NOTE: All remaining Judicial races are uncontested.

ABOUT THIS GUIDE The material in this guide was compiled by the League of Women Voters of Minneapolis in order to promote political responsibility through informed and active participation of citizens in their government. The League is nonpartisan: it neither supports nor opposes any political parties or candidates.

At the time of printing the information provided was up to date.

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