Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has a real problem on his hands right now due to revelations about massive, ongoing fraud in his state, and he is about to get hit again.
A possible voter fraud scheme has just been uncovered amid a host of COVID-19 aid and childcare-related fraud, adding to Walz's problems.
According to reports, registered voters in Minnesota were permitted to vouch for up to eight other individuals who were not required to show their ID to be registered in order to cast a ballot.
Walz is currently under significant scrutiny over fraud schemes connected to programs funded with state and federal taxpayer dollars.
As we noted in earlier reports, his troubles started in light of a $250 million scandal, but the scale of the fraud is now pegged at upwards of $9 billion in Minnesota alone, possibly double that when other states are added to the mix.
A new video is blowing up all over the internet, one produced by independent journalist Nick Shirley, in which he visits various daycare and healthcare centers in Walz's state that appear to have no patients or children, yet have received millions in grants from both the state and federal governments.
This comes after the New York Times published a piece in November that also exposed this type of fraud, though Shirley's video brings the situation to life a bit more when you see just how blatant the illegality is.
In 2023, Gov. Walz signed legislation that provided “Driver’s Licenses for All.” The IDs carried no designation in terms of citizenship status, but they are what most people use to register to vote.
Minnesota allows a registered voter to “vouch” for as many as eight individuals who are seeking to vote on the same day as the election, without any requirement that these individuals have an ID. Anyone who was registered via that “vouch” system, however, was unable to vouch for other voters.
Any voter who has not been vouched for must show at least one form of identification, including a Minnesota driver’s license. The stipulation for the ID is that it must have a photo and a signature.
So, as you can see, this opens the door to a massive voter fraud problem if officials are only checking the ID and not checking residency status. It is an even bigger problem in terms of the vouched-for voters, who, in essence, are being allowed to vote based on little more than someone’s word as to their eligibility.
So, the natural question now is whether this would have impacted the 2020 and 2024 elections in Minnesota. The answer, in terms of the Somali community, is no, but outside of that community, this could have clearly impacted the outcomes.
There are approximately 100,000 Somalis in Minnesota. In the 2020 election, Joe Biden beat Trump by more than 230,000 votes. In the 2024 election, Kamala Harris beat Trump by just shy of 138,000 votes (in Minnesota).
Even if every Somali voter, legal and vouched, pulled the lever for Harris or Biden, it would not have been enough to flip the election. However, if this extended beyond that community, it very well may have impacted the outcome of the vote in the state.
I have never believed that there was enough fraud present in any state to flip a federal election, and I doubt that was the case here. My real concern is at the state and local level, but the Trump-Harris vote was the closest of any race in the 2024 election (for Congress). Regardless, this is something that must be investigated and fixed, as we simply cannot have people “vouching” for voters' eligibility, as it does invite the possibility of having enough fraud to flip the state in a presidential election, or at least give people reason to question the outcome.
