Rachel E. Stassen-Berger
St. Paul Pioneer Press
If you lived in Carver County last year and you cast an absentee ballot, county officials checked to make sure your ballot's witness was a registered voter, the county elections manager testified Tuesday in Minnesota's Senate election trial. 
Your witness was unregistered? Your ballot wasn't counted.
If you lived in Scott County, however, and you cast that same ballot with that same unregistered witness, your ballot likely was counted. Scott County officials don't routinely check to make sure witnesses are registered, that county's elections manager testified just after her Carver County counterpart.
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