Minnesota Allegedly Retains Old, Duplicate Voter Lists Causing Doubts on Election Integrity Before the Midterms

Minnesota Allegedly Retains  Old, Duplicate Voter Lists Causing Doubts on Election Integrity  Before the Midterms
According to Public Interest Legal Foundation, the old duplicate voter lists kept in Dakota county threaten election integrity. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images

Minnesota county reportedly kept old voters lists from last elections instead of dumping them, according to an election integrity group. They are concerned over the intentions why the list has not been purged which are suspect who it might benefit.

Fears of Vote Manipulation Like the 2020 Elections

To correct the situation, one group filed a case for the officials to act and officially remove these lists, reported the Epoch Times.

J. Christian Adams, the president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), is a former civil rights attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice.

He also expressed concern about duplicate registrants left standing on the voter rolls in Minnesota counties. Each duplicate registration allows a person to vote on multiple occasions. Minnesota's election results will become more reliable by removing redundant registrations, noted Conservative News Daily.

The PILF portrays itself as the nation's sole public interest law firm devoted entirely to election reform. It is a nonprofit organization that exists to assist states and others in facilitating the cause of campaign reform and the battle against chaos and violence in American elections.

Under the federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA), states are mandated to establish an automated statewide registration list that is accurate and eradicates old duplicate voter lists for election integrity.

Adams says that PILF is now using state implementation regulations in HAVA, which have never been utilized for 20 years.

He indicated that Wisconsin, and a handful of states, were excluded from the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), also known as the Motor-Voter law since it permitted individuals to register to cast a ballot relatively quickly at motor vehicle agencies and federal offices.

NVRA Used by Minnesota To Circumvent the HAVA

According to Adams, it has been challenging to get Minnesota to start cleaning up its voter registration rolls since the state cannot be compelled to do so under the NVRA.

However, the legal counsel discovered that HAVA includes a section enabling states to decide how to enforce this specific law, as other states ignored it. The state in question used state law to resolve the issue by enabling cases for HAVA noncompliance.

Based on the PILF representative, they are filling a case, and duplicate voter registration, including a proven sex offender casting votes twice in 2020, are in the records.

Furthermore, he stated that Minnesota has remained unaffected in its ability to deceive elections now that the tool to sweep it clean is available. It will be used extensively, much to the chagrin of those who intend to cast illegitimate votes.

On September 27, PILF filed a complaint against Dakota County, which maintains these suspect voter rolls; the Minnesota secretary of state's office is aware of it.

Based on the group of spurious voters, 73 people on Dakota County's voting list show up to have two different voter registration numbers but have the same year of birth and address.

One of the PILF reports shows that 2,000 voters from New Jersey were 105 years old or more. Previous elections show dead people voting in several states. PILF is concerned that old duplicate voter lists are dangerous to election integrity that must be eliminated.

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