REPORT: Minnesota Risks Thousands of Non-Citizen Votes in November, Thanks to Tim Walz

Tim Walz and other Democrats have loosened Minnesota’s election laws enough to potentially allow 81,000 illegal aliens to vote in November

A new report by the Minnesota Voters Alliance warns that Tim Walz’s automatic voter registration law risks registering thousands of non-citizens ahead of the November presidential election, thanks to a loophole in the law that exploits driver's licenses to automatically add individuals to the voter rolls. 

And with 81,000 illegal aliens qualified for driver's licenses, the threat of non-citizen voting is higher than ever.

As Restoration News has previously reported, Minnesota has some of the loosest election laws in the country, most of them courtesy of Gov. Walz (D). In May 2023, Walz signed the “Democracy for the People Act” into law, creating—among other things—an automatic voter registration system which registers anyone who interacts with the DMV, health exchange, or other state agencies.

Under federal law, that’s supposed to be limited to U.S. citizens. It’s a felony for non-citizens to attempt to falsely claim citizenship when they register to vote, and the Minnesota state constitution lists U.S. citizenship as an eligibility requirement to vote.

But as the Minnesota Voters Alliance points out, new language in the Walz law is vague enough to potentially enroll non-citizens who fail to provide documented proof of citizenship.

“With the new Minnesota driver’s license application form, there are no questions, check boxes, or signed oaths regarding citizenship whatsoever, anywhere,” the group points out, “only a paragraph, in the tiniest of print, at the bottom of the form.” That paragraph reads:

If you provide documentation showing you are not a U.S. citizen at the time of application, no data will be sent to the Office of the Secretary of State.

That is the sole criterion under which a new driver’s license application is not sent to the Secretary of State, and—thanks to the automatic voter registration law—added to the voter rolls.

In other words, the alliance warns, “there are no requirements to show citizenship or even attest to it.” Should a non-citizen, legal or otherwise, apply for a driver’s license and choose not to provide proof of citizenship in the application, they will be automatically registered to vote under Minnesota’s vague law.

(RELATED: What’s Stopping Illegal Aliens from Voting in Minnesota? Under Tim Walz, Not Much.)

Vague is the Point

The state DMV requires applicants provide two “primary documents” in their application as part of the “Driver’s License for All” law enacted by Walz in 2023, including non-U.S. passports, foreign birth certificates, Canadian naturalization certificates, and multiple IDs provided by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service.

Alternatively, applicants may provide a single primary document from the above list plus a “secondary document,” including:

• Social Security Card
• Proof of Submission of Application for Asylum and for Withholding of Removal
• Foreign or domestic certified marriage certificate
• Foreign or domestic school transcripts
• Canadian social insurance card
• Canadian government “employee photo identification card”
• IRS individual taxpayer ID number
• Minnesota Unemployment Insurance benefit statement

If these requirements seem easy to satisfy, that’s the point. Remember that the Walz administration boasted that the illegal alien driver’s license law “makes sure that our children and families can come out of the shadows and . . . all Minnesotans have opportunities to thrive, succeed, grow, and live their fullest lives in our state.”

Theoretically, individuals who provide foreign documents demonstrating they are not U.S. citizens shouldn’t be registered to vote in this system (and per federal law). But obtaining Social Security Numbers is relatively easy for non-citizens using a form from the Social Security Administration.

The Center for Immigration Studies estimates that some 2.65 million illegal aliens held Social Security Numbers in 2021. Others have spotted members of the infamous MS-13 gang hocking fake Social Security cards with very real numbers on New York City street corners for as much as $250 each.

“The [law’s] language appears to have been purposefully written to absolve state officials from any responsibility to protect Minnesota voter rolls and leaves the door wide open to voter fraud,” the Minnesota Voter Alliance writes. The group has sent data requests to the Commissioner of the Department of Public Safety and Secretary of State regarding the threat of non-citizen voting, and expects to hear back by Sept. 24.

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(READ MORE: Citizen-Only Voting is Set to Save 8 States—and the Nation—from Illegal Alien Voting this Fall)