Dressed As A Muslim, James O’Keefe Exposes How Minnesota Enables Voter Fraud

Investigative reporter James O’Keefe has exposed how Minnesota enables voter fraud by allowing registered voters to “vouch” for up to eight people living in the same precinct who are not registered to vote.

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Dressed as a Muslim and accompanied by Cam Higby, who wore a burka, O’Keefe visited polls across Minneapolis and “presented an intentionally extreme scenario to expose the sheer lunacy of Minnesota’s ‘vouching’ system,” he explained on X.

CAUGHT INSIDE MINNEAPOLIS POLLING BOOTHS: Minnesota Poll Workers Tell O’Keefe, Dressed in Muslim Garb, & @camhigby, in a Burka, That They Can Vouch for Eight Unregistered Voters Without ID, Allowing Them to Vote in Minnesota Primary Election

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— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) August 13, 2026

O’Keefe told the poll workers that the people with him were unregistered and asked whether they needed ID in order to vote.

Poll workers explained to him “again and again” that the people accompanying him did not need to present ID to vote as long as he vouched for them and that he could vouch for up to eight precinct residents.

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As one woman told O’Keefe, “You’re the ID.”

O’Keefe explained that this is all legal in the state: “Under Minnesota’s Statutes § 201.061, a registered voter can sign an affidavit affirming that they know another individual resides in the same precinct, allowing that person to register at the polls without presenting standard proof of residence. One registered voter can vouch for up to eight people.”

One poll worker at White Park Recreation Center told O’Keefe that once he vouches for fellow locals, they would be asked to “sign an oath affirming their own identity and eligibility to vote.”

“I asked whether their eligibility was actually verified,” wrote O’Keefe. “After the fact, yeah,” the worker responded.

In fact, Minnesota has allowed registered voters to vouch for people without proof of residence for decades, since its modern voting statutes were enacted in 1974. The original provision did not cite a limit on the number of people who could be vouched for.

“An individual may prove his residence” by “having an individual who is registered to vote in the precinct sign an oath in the presence of the election judge that he personally knows that the applicant is a resident of the precinct,” the statutes stated.

Since 2006 and until 2013, registered voters could vouch for up to 15 people who were not required to present ID. By 2006, §201.061 said: “A voter who is registered to vote in the precinct may sign up to 15 proof-of-residence oaths on any election day.”

In 2013, Governor Mark Dayton signed a new law whereby the limit was reduced from 15 to 8 vouched-for people.

The choice of O’Keefe and his entourage to dress up as Muslims highlights their concern that Minnesota’s voting system will be exploited by illegal and Muslim immigrants, who make up significant portions of the population in the state of Minnesota. Pew Research estimated that in 2023, about 130,000 unauthorized resided in the state, making up about 2.2 percent of the population.