The Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project has initiated legal action in Minnesota, targeting the Secretary of State and the Department of Public Safety. The lawsuit seeks to obtain records concerning voter roll maintenance within the state.
In a recent communication with members of the Minnesota Congressional delegation, the Minnesota Department of Public Safety revealed that approximately 1,000 voters had been inactivated from the state's voter rolls. This action was part of a manual review involving nearly 104,000 individuals registered through the Driver and Vehicle Services Division. Additionally, election integrity leaders have reportedly provided information necessary for removing noncitizens from these rolls. However, no action appears to have been taken by state election officials despite having this information for several months.
Last month, the Oversight Project submitted open records requests to both the Minnesota Secretary of State and Department of Public Safety. These requests sought details on the number of voters inactivated following an internal audit, reasons for their inactivation, and whether they had participated in previous elections. To date, these requests have not been addressed.
Kyle Brosnan, chief counsel for the Oversight Project, expressed concerns over this lack of transparency: "The Oversight Project has already uncovered evidence of noncitizens admitting on camera to being registered to vote in Minnesota in the upcoming election. We also know that election integrity leaders have been communicating with Minnesota election officials for months with credible evidence of noncitizens appearing on Minnesota’s voter rolls. The silence from Minnesota election officials on this important issue speaks volumes."
Brosnan further emphasized: "We submitted an open records request seeking transparency about Minnesota’s voter roll maintenance efforts. Of the approximately 1,000 voters we know were removed, how many are noncitizens? This is a simple question and Minnesota election officials have not answered it. These officials have not been transparent with elected leaders from the state and have ignored our open records request."
He also noted discrepancies in federal actions: "While the Biden-Harris administration has brought ridiculous lawsuits against Alabama and Virginia for their voter roll maintenance efforts, which removed thousands of noncitizens from the voter rolls, the Justice Department is curiously uninterested in Minnesota’s voter roll maintenance efforts. We will continue fighting for transparency on this important election integrity issue."
