Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota, an endorser of Ranked Choice Voting, and Common Cause Minnesota issued the following statement on February 25, 2010:

Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota and Common Cause Minnesota recently released a report that refutes erroneous claims about the 2008 US Senate recount and Minnesota’s election law and practice, made by the Center of the American Experiment (CAE) - "No Longer a National Model."

Read our report here: www.ceimn.org

CAE proposes significant changes in Minnesota‘s election systems. However, the CAE report provides no documentation to back up its claims and, upon close scrutiny, its claims are found to be highly inaccurate and misleading. For example, they state that the rejection rate for military absentee voters was 16 times greater than regular absentee voters, when in fact it was double.

In our response we argue that the orderly resolution of the 2008 Senate recount stands in sharp relief to the more chaotic results of contests in Florida (2000) and Ohio (2004). We also state that the preponderance of evidence supports our conclusion that Minnesota's elections are indeed a national model.