A Minnesota Republican says the state recorded him as voting in person in the 2012 presidential election.
There is one enormous problem: he says he was nearly 2,000 miles away in California enduring Navy SEAL training at the time.
Adam Schwarze, a Navy veteran and Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, says he discovered the entry only after a reporter checked his claim that he had voted only for President Trump.
The record, according to Schwarze and reporting reviewed by Fox News, lists him as an in-person voter in 2012. Schwarze says he was then at Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training in California, with orders placing him there from June through December.
He also says someone registered him on the day of Minneapolis’ 2009 mayoral election. His registration became active the next day, and he says state officials have not yet given him the underlying records he requested.
The public record does not establish who, if anyone, used his name. The contradiction still demands a serious, document-backed investigation instead of another brush-off.
Minnesota’s secretary of state responded to Fox with a generic defense of the state’s election system, pointing to its laws, security measures and high turnout. The office did not explain the specific 2012 entry Schwarze is challenging.
The state’s own registered-voter-list request form confirms that Minnesota maintains voter lists containing voting history. The form also makes clear that access to those records is regulated under state law.
That makes the next step simple: preserve the records, disclose the lawful audit trail and determine exactly how an in-person vote was attributed to a man who says he was training across the country.
The form requires requesters to identify themselves, certify a lawful purpose and acknowledge restrictions on how voter data may be used. In other words, Minnesota already has a formal process for handling the precise category of records now in dispute.
Election officials routinely insist that Americans should trust the system. Trust does not come from slogans.
It comes from showing the receipts when a citizen presents a concrete, checkable contradiction.
President Trump’s push for voter ID, citizenship verification and auditable elections is often treated by Democrats as an attack on voting. Cases like this show why refusing transparency is the real threat to public confidence.
Schwarze is asking for answers, not asking anyone to guess. Minnesota owes him—and every voter whose name is attached to an official record—the same thing.
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