Voter fraud is a real problem, especially in states like Minnesota, where scandals have become the norm. Though officials in Minnesota claim their electoral process is reliable and sound, the truth is that there are gaping holes in the framework currently in place.

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Going Undercover to Uncover Lies

Investigative reporter James O’Keefe and his “Justice League” crew recently went undercover at polling stations throughout Minneapolis on Minnesota Primary Day to poke holes in the lie that their voting guidelines are trustworthy. Their main goal was “to put the state’s voter vouching system to an extreme test.”

Currently, Minnesota Statutes § 201.061 stipulates that “a voter who is already registered in a precinct can sign an oath stating that they personally know another individual is a resident of that precinct.” Additionally, “a voter who is registered to vote in the precinct may sign up to eight proof-of-residence oaths on any election day.”

During the undercover operation, O’Keefe and independent journalist Cam Higby visited various voting precincts. O’Keefe dressed in traditional Muslim attire, while Higby posed as a woman in a burqa. Together, they presented various poll workers with a “deliberately extreme scenario involving multiple people who were supposedly unregistered.”

No ID? No Problem!

At one particular station, O’Keefe, disguising his voice with an accent, asked poll workers if he could vouch for unregistered voters. “About the vouching program, yeah? I can vouch for them? But they are not registered? That’s ok? That’s fine?” O’Keefe inquired. Without hesitation, the workers answered, “Yeah.”

Next, O’Keefe asked if he could vouch for at least five people. Poll workers confirmed this, but specified that he could actually vouch for up to eight people if needed. To this news, O’Keefe responded, “That’s a good thing,” adding that he would go back and “get more people” that he would like to vouch for. Incidentally, O’Keefe never voted or gathered anyone, but he was successful in showing how election workers were willing to carry out the vouching process.

You’re the ID!

Moving onto another polling location, the disguised O’Keefe once again questioned whether he could vouch for unregistered voters, asking, “Is that ok?” The worker enthusiastically answered, “Yes,” explaining, “if you are all in the same precinct and you are already registered, which it looks like you are, then you can vouch for them as ID for them.” O’Keefe declared, “Oh, good! And no ID needed. I just vouch for them!” Smiling, the poll worker reiterated, “You’re the ID,” and further explained that he could vouch for up to eight people. As before, O’Keefe did not actually vote or bring others to do so, but was able to expose the way the faulty rules worked.

To Vouch or Not To Vouch

To those who demand secure and fair elections, these investigations reveal disturbing cracks in an already damaged voting system. Proponents of vouching, however, say that the policy expands ballot access for people who have recently moved as well as senior citizens. Contrarily, critics view it as a way to potentially commit fraud.

In his investigation, O’Keefe refers to a document from the Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State, which shows that election workers are only required to circle the number of people who are vouched for by a registered voter, but there’s no identifying information to show who they actually are. Furthermore, Scott Pressler, from Early Vote Action, reveals that when he requested lists of vouched-for voters from areas of Minnesota such as Duluth, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and St. Cloud, he was out of luck. In fact, these voters were “nameless, faceless, and record-less.”

O’Keefe maintains that his team’s investigation “was designed to take the system off the pages of the statute book and put it to an extreme real-world test…undercover reporters repeatedly presented election workers with the same basic scenario: multiple unregistered people, no standard identification, and a registered voter willing to vouch for them.”

In a video posted on social media O’Keefe stated, “Most poll workers we visited were willing to let us vouch with no questions asked, even when presented with the most absurd situation imaginable, while other poll workers did take issue with our investigation, revealing awareness that something about this vouching process is deeply flawed–yet for some reason, they don’t want us to expose it.”

At these precincts, O’Keefe and his undercover crew did NOT actually vote. A post on X stressed, “Note: the intention of this video was NEVER to actually vote. The intention was only to expose flaws in the system. No ballots were cast or touched. No affidavits were signed or touched. All we did is speak to poll workers.”

Investigation Under Fire

Even though no votes were cast, O’Keefe and Higby are now under fire for their investigation by the Minnesota chapter of CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations), an organization that has been linked to scandals involving Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. They charge that O’Keefe and Higby misrepresented themselves in the undercover videos and went out of their way to paint Muslims in a bad light. Moreover, the Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon called the investigative team a “widely discredited Florida-based political group” whose behavior at polling stations was “outrageous.”

O’Keefe pointed out the irrational nature of the charges by drawing attention to the most obvious problem– election workers declared, “You are the ID.” Instead of re-examining Minnesota’s vouching guidelines, which can easily give way to fraud, faultfinders are threatening those who find serious loopholes in the voting system.

Social media users who have seen O’Keefe and Higby’s videos have repeatedly expressed concerns over America’s broken election laws, with some urging, “Pass the SAVE America Act,” which requires proof of citizenship for voter registration and a photo ID for voting.

Hamas Members Can Vote?

O’Keefe and Higby aren’t the only ones exposing the voucher schemes. Anthony Rubin of the Muckraker Foundation, a group that works closely with O’Keefe, did their own investigation on Minnesota Primary Day. On August 11, 2026, Rubin walked into a Minneapolis polling location with two men dressed in Muslim garb. He told poll workers that the individuals he was with were alleged members of Hamas who had recently arrived from the Gaza Strip, adding that he was unsure of their citizenship status. Rubin questioned whether he could vouch for them.

To Rubin’s shock, the election workers stated, “You can vouch for up to eight people,” while another clarified, “If you’re vouching for them, you wouldn’t need to show anything.” Workers specified that the person doing the vouching “is the documentation.”

Rubin stressed that in Minnesota’s vouching system, his signature alone would be enough for “a foreign terrorist to vote and participate in Minnesota’s election,” and no ID was needed from the people being vouched for. Even when Rubin expressed concern that he “could get into trouble” for vouching for alleged members of Hamas, he was assured that it wouldn’t be an issue.

Rubin and the men who were pretending to be Hamas members didn’t cast any ballots or sign any oaths, but their video documentation showed that poll workers were ready, willing, and able to follow the clearly unsound Minnesota vouching standards.

About a week after the investigations, undercover journalist Cam Higby interviewed a former head election judge in Minneapolis who agreed that the Minnesota voting system has blatant flaws in the vouching system. “The only requirement is that the person doing the vouching is a registered voter in that precinct,” she stated while referring to pages 22- 23 in the 2026 election procedures manual.

Pray for the Upcoming Elections in November

As the November mid-term elections approach, now is the time to buckle down and pray. Fraudulent schemes are being exposed every day, and this means there are serious problems with election integrity. Intercessors must continue to intercede for every state in our nation, asking for the Lord’s hand to be upon our election supervisors, poll workers, and voters. Pray for corruption to be exposed and for honest individuals and leaders to do what’s right, rather than make excuses when serious loopholes in the system are found.

Lord Jesus, we pray for fair, just, and secure elections. Bring all corruption out into the light so that changes can be made where they are needed. We pray for election supervisors, poll workers, and legislators to question guidelines and laws that are clearly unsound. Have mercy on our nation. We need You now more than ever.

What do you think of Minnesota’s Vouching Laws? How can we pray about this?

Angela Rodriguez is an author, blogger, and former teacher who studies the signs of the times, as well as the historical and biblical connections between Israel and the United States. You can visit her blogs at 67owls.com and 100trumpets.com. She is also the author of Psalm 91: Under the Wings of Jesus and Hallelujah’s Great Ride. Photo Credit: Erik (HASH) Hersman from Orlando – Vote here, vote aqui, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=76079316)