Source: American Greatness, By Debra Heine, January 2, 2026
Department of Justice attorney Harmeet Dhillon on Friday fired off a letter to Minnesota’s secretary of State demanding records pertaining to the state’s controversial same day voter “vouching” registrations.
Minnesota allows same-day voter registration, even for individuals who do not have identification if a registered voter from the same precinct vouches for their residency. A registered voter can vouch for up to eight people, but cannot vouch for others if someone vouched for them.
Employees of residential facilities such as nursing homes or homeless shelters are allowed to vouch for an unlimited number of residents at their facility, provided they can verify their employment.
The voucher must accompany the prospective voter to the polling place and sign an oath confirming their address, under penalty of perjury.
Scott Presler, a conservative political activist known for his voter registration efforts, first brought Minnesota’s lax voter vouching system to the nation’s attention last week.
“There *should* be a paper trail of every single one of these vouching forms,” Presler wrote on X, Monday. “How many persons serve as vouchers each election? What is the number of persons for each voucher? Do these vouchers show up every single election?” he added. “We need to begin submitting Data Practices Requests to the Minnesota Secretary of State.”
Critics have pointed out that in 2024, there were 296,000 same-day registrations in Minnesota amid narrow Democrat wins.
Both President Trump and billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk have voiced their concerns about the Minnesota’s voting policies on social media in recent days.
Musk commented that the system appeared “made for fraud.”
“Vouching for randos during critical elections is nuts,” Musk wrote in an X post on New Year’s Eve.
That same day on Truth Social, Trump shared a New York Post story about Minnesota’s vouching system, and opined that California and Minnesota were “tied for first” in Election Fraud. “Two Crooked Governors, two Crooked States!” the president said.
Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ, commented on X that the system “seems facially inconsistent with the Help America Vote Act [HAVA] of 2002. We’ll see!”
In her letter to Minnesota Secretary of State, Steve Simon, Dhillon requested all records pertaining to same day voter registrations and voter vouching for all elections held within the last 22 months, including the 2024 primary and general elections.
“The basis and purpose of this demand is to ensure Minnesota’s voting and registration practices are in compliance with federal law, particularly the minimum requirements under HAVA,” she wrote.
Dhillon wrote on X Friday that she thinks the state’s voter vouching system “seems hinky.”
“Let’s find out,” she said.
