The Justice Department sent Minnesota officials a letter Friday demanding records regarding the state’s “vouching” system for voter registration, as the North Star State faces intense scrutiny over the Somali child care fraud revelations.
Minnesota offers an alternative form of verifying an address when registering to vote on Election Day known as “vouching,” by which a registered voter in the same precinct or a staff member of the residential facility where the prospective voter lives can sign an oath verifying another person’s address for the purposes of voter registration. In a letter to Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon asked for records pertaining to this method of voter registration for elections held in the past 22 months, including the 2024 elections.
