The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party has revoked the Minneapolis DFL’s endorsement of mayoral candidate and state senator Omar Fateh, who is challenging Mayor Jacob Frey in this year’s election.

Fateh, a democratic socialist, won the endorsement on July 19 at a Minneapolis DFL convention marked by difficulties and delays with the party’s electronic voting system.

A review by the state party found that those flaws with the voting system warranted nullifying the convention’s results.

Frey, a Democrat, filed a complaint about the voting process at the convention, and the state party decided to review the process.

His campaign claimed only 578 votes were counted on the first mayoral ballot, even though there were more than 1,000 delegates and alternates present.

“After a thoughtful

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