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Subdivision 1.Application.
The definitions in chapter 200 and this section apply to this chapter.
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Subd. 2.Campaign material.
"Campaign material" means any literature, publication, or material that is disseminated for the purpose of influencing voting at a primary or other election, except for news items or editorial comments by the news media.
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Subd. 3.Candidate.
"Candidate" means an individual who seeks nomination or election to a federal, statewide, legislative, judicial, or local office including special districts, school districts, towns, home rule charter and statutory cities, and counties, except candidates for president and vice-president of the United States.
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Subd. 4.Committee.
"Committee" means two or more persons acting together or a corporation or association acting to influence the nomination, election, or defeat of a candidate or to promote or defeat a ballot question. Promoting or defeating a ballot question includes efforts to qualify or prevent a proposition from qualifying for placement on the ballot.
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Subd. 5.Disbursement.
"Disbursement" means an act through which money, property, office, or position or other thing of value is directly or indirectly promised, paid, spent, contributed, or lent, and any money, property, office, or position or other thing of value so promised or transferred.
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Subd. 6.Political purposes.
An act is done for "political purposes" when the act is intended or done to influence, directly or indirectly, voting at a primary or other election. This does not include news items or editorial comments published or broadcast by the news media.
Notes of Decisions
281 Care Comm. v. Ross Arneson, 766 F.3d 774 (8th Cir. 2014).
· cites it 3× “Minn.Stat. §§ 211B.01 et seq. Appellees are two Minnesota county attorneys and the Minnesota Attorney General, all sued in their official capacities (“Appellees” or “the county attorneys”).”
Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life, Inc. v. Swanson, 692 F.3d 864 (8th Cir. 2012).
· cites it 2× “Specifically, the appellants claim Minnesota’s law impermissibly violates their rights to make (1) contributions to candidates and political parties, and (2) independent expenditures advocating the election or defeat of a candidate. The challenged provisions are part of…”
State of Minnesota v. Jaimiah Lamar Irby, 848 N.W.2d 515 (Minn. 2014).
· cites it 4× “See Minn. Stat. § 211B.01, subd. 3 (2012) (defining “candidate” as “an individual who seeks nomination or election to a federal, statewide, legislative, judicial, or local office,” where “local office” includes “special districts, school districts, towns, home rule charter and…”
Lewison v. Hutchinson, 929 N.W.2d 444 (Minn. Ct. App. 2019).
· cites it 6× “" Minn. Stat. § 211B.01, subd. 2 (2018). A person subject to the disclaimer requirement who fails to include a disclaimer on campaign material is guilty of a misdemeanor.”
Linert v. MacDonald, 901 N.W.2d 664 (Minn. Ct. App. 2017).
· cites it 2× “MacDonald argues that OAH lacked subject-matter jurisdiction because the newspaper’s voter guide does not constitute campaign material, as defined by Minn. Stat. § 211B.01 (2016). But this argument relates to the merits of Linert’s complaint, not whether OAH had authority to…”
Minnesota RFL Caucus v. Mike Freeman, 33 F.4th 985 (8th Cir. 2022).
“” Minn. Stat. § 211B.01, subd. 2. Minnesota law authorizes any person to file a written complaint alleging a violation of § 211B.”
Riley v. Jankowski, 713 N.W.2d 379 (Minn. Ct. App. 2006).
· cites it 2× “When used in this statute, “ ‘[cjampaign material’ means any literature, publication, or material that is disseminated for the purpose of influencing voting at a primary *402 or other election, except for news items or editorial comments by the news media.”
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