Voting booths are pictured here. (Paul Richards/AFP via Getty Images)
"Vouching can only be used to provide proof of a potential voter’s residence in the precinct. The potential voter must still provide their Minnesota driver’s license or ID card number or the last four digits of their Social Security number for identity verification," Knudson said.
"Vouching is most commonly used in senior living facilities by residents who have not updated their driver’s licenses to reflect their current residence. It is also sometimes used in cases where an eligible voter has recently moved to a new address and lacks identification indicating the new address."
The statute in question provides for election judges to fill out a form to record the number of vouching voters – which then is affirmed through the oath of the voter-applicant.
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Knudson also shared a web page with information detailing Minnesota’s election security measures, which include the prevalence of election judges at each polling place, cross-checking ballots cast for the number of voters recorded each election night, and safeguards to prevent absentee voters from casting more than one ballot.
Bill Glahn of the Center for the American Experiment – a Twin Cities-based conservative public policy organization – said of proponents who talk of safeguards, "it’s like murder’s illegal, but it happens all the time."
"It's a penalty of perjury," he said. "You signed an oath, but if you signed as Mickey Mouse, they're not going to find you."
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"Early on in my residency in Minnesota, I went to vote. And I saw this firsthand. I saw somebody doing this – somebody vouching in half a dozen people, and they were laughing and giggling like, 'I can't believe this is working.' And I was infuriated seeing this."
Some Minnesota lawmakers have taken issue with voter verification policies at the state level, with the subject of illegal immigrants being able to vote – whether through loopholes or otherwise – drawing a contentious exchange during a state House hearing.
Minnesota Elections Director Paul Linnell – a Simon appointee – was challenged on the state’s election security posture during a hearing before the House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee.
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State Rep. Patti Anderson, R-Eagan, told Linnell that Minnesota gives driver's licenses to "anyone here – you don’t have to be a citizen," and suggested they may try to register to vote with an incorrect Social Security number and have their registration be considered "incomplete."
"But, if they walk into vote with their driver’s license, does that make them all of a sudden now, OK?"
Linnell replied that the "designation on the roster for someone whose registration had been incomplete if they present the election judge with that acceptable identification document, that would clear the challenge from the roster and they would be permitted to cast a ballot."
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"Well, OK, there’s your problem, potentially," Anderson replied.
Chairwoman Kristen Robbins, R-Maple Grove, summed up the issue as "someone who is not a citizen but who presents a driver’s license at that point in the process could be permitted to vote."
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