Minnesota’s two largest counties are facing a new election integrity records probe. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)
Riemer told Fox News Digital earlier in January that an anticipated probe into Minnesota's election processes was sparked by the current fraud case unfolding in the state and to ensure its election system has not suffered similar swindling to the state's welfare and social programs.
"What you've seen happen in Minnesota and now similar fraudulent schemes in other states, this should be very much a canary in the coal mine for other governmental processes," Riemer told Fox News Digital in a previous Zoom interview in January. "Which would include our voter registration and election processes. And it's not somehow immune to the type of corruption that we've seen in Minnesota and in other places."
The requests zero in on Minnesota's Hennepin and Ramsey counties’ voter-eligibility checks, noncitizen safeguards and the state’s "vouching" process.
Hennepin and Ramsey are Minnesota’s most populous counties and anchor the Minneapolis–St. Paul metro area. Minneapolis has been at the center of the state’s sweeping welfare fraud case, which has led to dozens of arrests, mostly from members of the state's large Somali population.
Former Des Moines superintendent Ian Andre Roberts who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and federally charged. (Polk County, Iowa, Sheriff)
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Such concerns made national headlines when illegal immigrant Ian Roberts was found to be allegedly fraudulently registered to vote in Maryland. Roberts was arrested in 2025 while serving as a high-paid school superintendent in Iowa.
RITE was at the forefront of a successful effort to force a Maryland county to turn over unredacted voter registration documents showing Roberts fraudulently declared himself a U.S. citizen to register. The Maryland State Board of Elections previously said Roberts did not vote in elections.
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