Voter “vouching” in Minnesota
As Presler noted earlier, it is Minnesota policy that one “registered Minnesota voter can vouch for up to 8 persons (without an ID).”
On X:
1 registered Minnesota voter can vouch for up to 8 persons (without an ID).
In St. Louis County (Duluth, MN), 737 of the 13,375 voters that registered to vote on Election Day in 2024
“proved their residence through vouching.”
737 / 13,375 = 5.5
?5.5% of voters that registered to vote for the presidential election in ONE county did so via vouching?
More:
As Muckraker wrote on X:
“BREAKING: Hidden camera captures Minnesota poll workers confirming alleged foreign terror organization members can vote if vouched for. We put Minnesota’s voter ‘vouching’ system to an extreme test by asking if it was okay to vouch for alleged Hamas militants who had recently come to America from the Gaza Strip.
“An election worker said, ‘You can vouch for up to 8 people,’ and added, ‘If you’re vouching for them, they wouldn’t need to show anything,’ referring to the alleged Hamas members we asked about registering to vote. We were also told that the person doing the vouching ‘is the documentation.'”
Minnesota’s not the only state with the system of vouching:
As of August 2026, 36 states required voters to present identification in order to vote at the polls on Election Day, but many states provide for exceptions to these rules. Of these states, 24 required voters to present identification containing a photograph, with certain exceptions, and 12 states did not explicitly require photo identification. The remaining 14 states did not generally require voters to present identification in order to vote at the polls on Election Day. …
In 15 states, some or all voters can sign an affidavit or a form in lieu of providing identification. Four states allow election officials or other voters to vouch for a person’s identity instead of an ID. And in four states, voters who live and vote in state-licensed nursing homes or care centers do not have to provide ID.
The site says four states have vouching, but I’ve been having trouble finding which states they are – besides Minnesota, of course.
Heard in the Minnesota Governor’s office:
“We need a way to enable more voter fraud.”
“How about voter vouching?”
“Too obvious. There’s no conceivable motive for that _other_ than cheating.”
“I don’t care.”
“Yeah, me neither. It’s not like anything happens to people who commit vote fraud.”
My own state does not require ID or vouching. If you sign something saying you can vote, you can vote. It’s supposed to be a provisional ballot and they’re supposed to check before adding it to those to be counted, but that’s a lot of work for what’s going to be a Dem landslide anyway and they might need that ballot later if it looks like it’s really close, so I think they just store them in car trunks until they’re needed.
The vouching legislation of the voucher states was passed by the states’ legislators, likely all Democrats. The most Democratic states are California, New York, Massachusetts, Hawaii, Rhode Island, Washington, and Maryland.
Dear Canada,
We will trade Minnesota for Alberta. You’ll feel culturally enriched.
We promise,
America
The other “voucher states” are Iowa, Alaska, and North Dakota. The really blue states just don’t require anything.
I found this out by following neo’s link and checking up on the states marked as requiring non-photo ID.
Necessity (by any means necessary) is the mother of all election rigging. I’m beginning to think even if the SAVE act was passed Democrats would manufacture a loophole or workaround.
It’s not that difficult in most of the country to provide a convenient system of voter registration which includes apposite screens to prevent fraudulent registrations and the accumulation of relict registrations. The legislatures just cannot be bothered. They cannot be bothered to craft a suitable electoral calendar. They cannot be bothered to make use of analog technology. They cannot be bothered to move election day to Saturday. They cannot be bothered to set up suitable substantive and procedural screens for the distribution of postal ballots. The amendments they do make render matters worse.
It has to be a Leftist scam out in the open.
In Pennsylvania I had to register,, no one just ‘ vouch ‘ for me
I was a poll watcher at the November 4, 2008 general election in Minnesota. The version of Minn. Stat. § 201.061, subd. 3(a)(4) in force at that time permitted a registered voter to vouch for up to 15 people on Election Day.
Art Deco (6:32 pm) said, in part:
“They [state legislatures] cannot be bothered to move election day to Saturday.”
Observant Jews will have a problem with that, won’t they?
@ Art Deco > what MJR said. Also, in this day and age, about as many people work on Saturday as on weekdays, and a great many on Sunday as well.
Let’s stick with Election Day as is, and make it easier for businesses to let their employees take time out to vote.
Personally, I don’t have any objections to a better-controlled mail-in system, or even a few days of early ballot collections.
Emphasis on “better controlled” for everything.
We never did get our most recent primary ballots in Colorado, although the automated message system told me I had been sent one.
Observant Jews will have a problem with that, won’t they?
==
Jews account for < 2% of the population, 70% of them are not affiliated with any synagogue and only 8% are Orthodox. You can provide in law for observant Jews to deliver a ballot to the town clerk's office before sundown on Friday.
==
There is no day of the week that is not going to be inconvenient or objectionable for someone.
Also, in this day and age, about as many people work on Saturday as on weekdays, and a great many on Sunday as well.
==
In your imagination only. Saturday is a regular workday for about 12% of the adult population. (See the Bureau of Labor Statistics). You can accommodate them by having the polls open from 7:00 am to 6:00 pm on Saturday and 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm on Friday.
==
Let’s stick with Election Day as is, and make it easier for businesses to let their employees take time out to vote.
==
IOW, stick with a day which is a regular workday for > 40% of the adult population but pester employers. Sounds like a plan.
You have several categories of people who have an abiding impediment to voting in person or for whom voting in situ is imprudent policy
==
1. Civilian employees of the government posted abroad, and any spouse posted with them
==
2. Servicemen and any spouse living with them
==
3. Persons under 25 enrolled at a a residential campus.
==
4. Persons otherwise eligible but living in institutional group quarters
==
5. People who are eligible but home bound (certified by their doctor)
==
6. People who travel a great deal for work (certified by their work supervisor).
==
7. You could add for people who live at some distance from polling stations. That would outside of clown world be an issue in the rural west and a few odd places like the Minnesota Iron Range. I had an exchange with a dame from Arizona who insisted they just had to have it there. About 9% of Arizona’s population lives in the countryside, who can apparently be expected to go into town to shop for groceries but not to cast a ballot.
==
I was active in politics at a time when New York set up one voting precinct for every 1,000 residents. The national mean is now is one for 3,000 residents and in Georgia it is one for 6,000 residents. You can reduce the length of your queues by (1) having the election on days and times when people are not usually working and (2) expanding the number of precincts and (3) providing ample numbers of stations where people can fill out a ballot and (4) rejiggering your electoral calendar to reduce the number of offices at stake.
…and John Thune can’t get the RINO’s jackasses in the Senate to pass the Save America Act.
Damn, that man is a P.O.S. as are Tillis, Cornyn, Murkowski and McConnell and whomever else is blocking voter/election fraud reform.
I and my wife just retired as Chief Election Judges in Montana after many primary and general elections over the past 20 years. We know how cheating is done and it is being done on an industrial scale in many states.
It is interesting that such crimes are being committed and zero is being done about. The FBI has 13,500 agents. Outside of watching porn and arresting an occasional drug dealer, abortion clinic protestor what the hell do they do all day???
@ Art Deco > Thanks for the numbers on voters and workers. I wish I had your facility with the various data banks; I don’t even know where to start looking for things most of the time.
Also a very well thought-out reform plan, as usual.
I wish our legislators were as competent.
@ John Galt III > “what the hell do they do all day???”
Run in-house coups against the President who escaped the election fraud.