A coalition of good government groups plans to train volunteers to watch local election officials count and recount the ballots from the 2010 election.

The groups -- Common Cause Minnesota, Citizens for Election Integrity and the League of Women voters -- joined together in a similar way to watch the 2008 U.S. Senate recount. Now they are gearing up again to track the gubernatorial recount between Democrat Mark Dayton and Republican Tom Emmer.

Laura Fredrick Wang, of the League of Women Voters, said they hope to provide " more sunshine than partisanship." The volunteers will be watching with an eye on the election system, rather than watching to make sure votes are counted for one candidate or another.

Some volunteers have already started their watching stints as counties conduct their so-called "post-election reviews," which are hand recounts of select precincts in each county designed to make sure machines correctly counted the votes. Those reviews happen in all elections whether or not there is a close race that necessitates a hand recount of all the ballots.The reviews are scheduled to be complete by Nov. 18.

Once the recount starts, on Nov. 29, the volunteers will be back in place to watch and report.

Mike Dean of Common Cause their efforts are nonpartisan because they "don't have a dog in this fight."

But they do have points of view. Dean said there is a "myth" of voter fraud in Minnesota, something that runs counter to the view of many conservative groups. On Twitter he questioned whether Emmer recount attorney Eric Magnuson, a former Minnesota Supreme Court chief justice, had a conflict of interest and has opined against requiring photo id from voters, which Republicans tend to back. Dean also said that the recount will not change the election outcome.

Dayton currently leads Emmer by 8,755 votes.