While there was a ''glitch'' in Minnesota's new automatic voter registration system, Secretary of State Steve Simon said Thursday that nobody who was ineligible voted in the August primary as a result of the problem.

As early voting starts this Friday in Minnesota, elections officials say they’ve improved the state’s new automatic voter registration system after a review discovered around 1,000 registrations that lacked proof of citizenship and addresses.

The Secretary of State's office said it updated its review process for applicants automatically registering to vote when they get their state-issued ID in order to prevent errors.

The Minnesota Secretary of State has inactivated the voting records of around 1,000 people following a review of the new Automatic Voter Registration (AVR) system.

Minnesota election officials are changing the state’s automatic ... problematic registrations and whether any of those people were able to vote in the August primary election. They also called on state public safety leaders to provide additional answers ...