An undercover video released Thursday by investigative journalist James O’Keefe offers startling and indisputable evidence of just how little documentation Minnesota requires from some people registering to vote on Election Day.
The footage, recorded during Minnesota’s Aug. 11 primary election, shows O’Keefe and associates, including Cam Higby, approaching Minneapolis poll workers while dressed in traditional Muslim attire. They presented an intentionally extreme scenario involving several people who were not registered to vote and asked what identification or residency documents would be required.
The answer from election workers was simple: If O’Keefe was already registered in the precinct, he could vouch for as many as eight other people.
“You’re the ID,” one poll worker told him.
In another exchange, O’Keefe asked whether he could vouch for people who were not registered.
“That’s okay. That’s fine. Yeah,” the worker responded.
“If you’re all in the same precinct and you are already registered, you can vouch for them as ID,” another worker explained. “Eight people.”
These were not confused election workers misstating the rules. They were accurately explaining Minnesota law.
