On Saturday, May 9, the Minnesota legislature passed HF 3429.  It allows candidate petitions for the general election this year to be collected electronically.

It also gives the qualified parties more time to certify the names of their presidential and vice-presidential nominees, and their presidential elector candidates.  But it does not extend the deadline for unqualified parties and independent candidates.  The bill moves the deadline for the qualified parties from August 11 to August 28.  But the petition deadline for the presidential nominees of unqualified parties, and independent presidential candidates, remains August 18.