Voter-roll scrutiny escalates in Minnesota as biggest counties face sweeping records demands
Trust is earned, not demanded.
EXCLUSIVE: Minnesota’s two largest counties are facing a new election integrity records probe targeting how officials verify voter eligibility, guard against potential noncitizen registrations and oversee the Election Day practice known as "vouching," Fox News Digital has learned.
Minnesota’s taxpayer-funded welfare fraud scandal has already put the Twin Cities under a national microscope. Now, watchdogs are increasingly scrutinizing other public-trust systems as well — including elections.
Justin Riemer, president and CEO of Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (RITE), sent public-records requests Tuesday to the Hennepin and Ramsey County, Minnesota, elections offices. He asked for "any and all government data" from Jan. 1, 2024, to the present related to voter registration and list maintenance.
RITE is a conservative legal nonprofit that "supports litigation to stop a well-funded network of activists from using the courts to undermine elections and democracy."
MINNESOTA FRAUD CASE IS 'CANARY IN THE COAL MINE' FOR GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS — INCLUDING ELECTIONS, LAWYER WARS
Riemer told Fox News Digital earlier in January that an anticipated probe into Minnesota's election processes was sparked by the current fraud case unfolding in the state and to ensure its election system has not suffered similar swindling to the state's welfare and social programs.
"What you've seen happen in Minnesota and now similar fraudulent schemes in other states, this should be very much a canary in the coal mine for other governmental processes," Riemer told Fox News Digital in a previous Zoom interview in January. "Which would include our voter registration and election processes. And it's not somehow immune to the type of corruption that we've seen in Minnesota and in other places."
The requests zero in on Minnesota's Hennepin and Ramsey counties’ voter-eligibility checks, noncitizen safeguards and the state’s "vouching" process.
Hennepin and Ramsey are Minnesota’s most populous counties and anchor the Minneapolis–St. Paul metro area. Minneapolis has been at the center of the state’s sweeping welfare fraud case, which has led to dozens of arrests, mostly from members of the state's large Somali population.
In both letters, RITE laid out eight requests, including county-state communications about voter list-maintenance procedures referenced in Minnesota law and steps used to verify citizenship for certain registrations. The group also sought records involving registrants who were later ruled ineligible because they were noncitizens.
The formal requests were made under …
Trust is earned, not demanded.
EXCLUSIVE: Minnesota’s two largest counties are facing a new election integrity records probe targeting how officials verify voter eligibility, guard against potential noncitizen registrations and oversee the Election Day practice known as "vouching," Fox News Digital has learned.
Minnesota’s taxpayer-funded welfare fraud scandal has already put the Twin Cities under a national microscope. Now, watchdogs are increasingly scrutinizing other public-trust systems as well — including elections.
Justin Riemer, president and CEO of Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (RITE), sent public-records requests Tuesday to the Hennepin and Ramsey County, Minnesota, elections offices. He asked for "any and all government data" from Jan. 1, 2024, to the present related to voter registration and list maintenance.
RITE is a conservative legal nonprofit that "supports litigation to stop a well-funded network of activists from using the courts to undermine elections and democracy."
MINNESOTA FRAUD CASE IS 'CANARY IN THE COAL MINE' FOR GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS — INCLUDING ELECTIONS, LAWYER WARS
Riemer told Fox News Digital earlier in January that an anticipated probe into Minnesota's election processes was sparked by the current fraud case unfolding in the state and to ensure its election system has not suffered similar swindling to the state's welfare and social programs.
"What you've seen happen in Minnesota and now similar fraudulent schemes in other states, this should be very much a canary in the coal mine for other governmental processes," Riemer told Fox News Digital in a previous Zoom interview in January. "Which would include our voter registration and election processes. And it's not somehow immune to the type of corruption that we've seen in Minnesota and in other places."
The requests zero in on Minnesota's Hennepin and Ramsey counties’ voter-eligibility checks, noncitizen safeguards and the state’s "vouching" process.
Hennepin and Ramsey are Minnesota’s most populous counties and anchor the Minneapolis–St. Paul metro area. Minneapolis has been at the center of the state’s sweeping welfare fraud case, which has led to dozens of arrests, mostly from members of the state's large Somali population.
In both letters, RITE laid out eight requests, including county-state communications about voter list-maintenance procedures referenced in Minnesota law and steps used to verify citizenship for certain registrations. The group also sought records involving registrants who were later ruled ineligible because they were noncitizens.
The formal requests were made under …
Voter-roll scrutiny escalates in Minnesota as biggest counties face sweeping records demands
Trust is earned, not demanded.
EXCLUSIVE: Minnesota’s two largest counties are facing a new election integrity records probe targeting how officials verify voter eligibility, guard against potential noncitizen registrations and oversee the Election Day practice known as "vouching," Fox News Digital has learned.
Minnesota’s taxpayer-funded welfare fraud scandal has already put the Twin Cities under a national microscope. Now, watchdogs are increasingly scrutinizing other public-trust systems as well — including elections.
Justin Riemer, president and CEO of Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (RITE), sent public-records requests Tuesday to the Hennepin and Ramsey County, Minnesota, elections offices. He asked for "any and all government data" from Jan. 1, 2024, to the present related to voter registration and list maintenance.
RITE is a conservative legal nonprofit that "supports litigation to stop a well-funded network of activists from using the courts to undermine elections and democracy."
MINNESOTA FRAUD CASE IS 'CANARY IN THE COAL MINE' FOR GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS — INCLUDING ELECTIONS, LAWYER WARS
Riemer told Fox News Digital earlier in January that an anticipated probe into Minnesota's election processes was sparked by the current fraud case unfolding in the state and to ensure its election system has not suffered similar swindling to the state's welfare and social programs.
"What you've seen happen in Minnesota and now similar fraudulent schemes in other states, this should be very much a canary in the coal mine for other governmental processes," Riemer told Fox News Digital in a previous Zoom interview in January. "Which would include our voter registration and election processes. And it's not somehow immune to the type of corruption that we've seen in Minnesota and in other places."
The requests zero in on Minnesota's Hennepin and Ramsey counties’ voter-eligibility checks, noncitizen safeguards and the state’s "vouching" process.
Hennepin and Ramsey are Minnesota’s most populous counties and anchor the Minneapolis–St. Paul metro area. Minneapolis has been at the center of the state’s sweeping welfare fraud case, which has led to dozens of arrests, mostly from members of the state's large Somali population.
In both letters, RITE laid out eight requests, including county-state communications about voter list-maintenance procedures referenced in Minnesota law and steps used to verify citizenship for certain registrations. The group also sought records involving registrants who were later ruled ineligible because they were noncitizens.
The formal requests were made under …
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