CAUGHT INSIDE MINNEAPOLIS POLLING BOOTHS: Minnesota Poll Workers Tell O’Keefe, Dressed in Muslim Garb, & @camhigby, in a Burka, That They Can Vouch for Eight Unregistered Voters Without ID, Allowing Them to Vote in Minnesota Primary Election

Election worker says, “You’re the ID,” referring to the registered voter serving as identification for the people they are vouching for.

Election worker confirms O’Keefe’s question about unregistered voters being vouched for: “I can vouch for them. They are not registered… That’s okay. That’s fine. Yeah!”

Election worker explains that a registered voter in the same precinct can vouch for up to eight people: “If you’re all in the same precinct and you are already registered, you can vouch for them as ID. Eight people.”

https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/2087950683831931327

This is one of the states that refuses to hand over voter rolls.

In practice, it provides two layers, not the usual one, of security. So, it's actually more secure than what other states have. Here's what it's meant for.

To register to vote in Minnesota, you need to show two things: You are who you say you are —that's identity. And you live where you say you live — that's residence. What you use a vouching for is really the residence part. That's where it's used most commonly.

It's used in places like assisted living homes. It's used in situations where someone just moved in September and October, and they might not have an ID or papers showing their address.

My own father, in the 1998 gubernatorial election, was vouched for because my parents downsized, they moved to a condo. They didn't yet have a utility bill or other means of showing that they live where they live. So what vouching allows is for a registered voter in a precinct to vouch that a particular person lives where they say they live.

So in the case of my dad, he knocks on the door of a neighbor, his new neighbor, and said, “Hey, can you vouch for me?” Which means you go to the polling place, you sign an oath under penalty of perjury saying that this person in the case — in this instance, my father — does he really live where he says he lives?

He still has to independently show his identity who he is,...........

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/12/31/minnesotas-vouching-voting-system-more-...