Today I sent Secretary Simon a letter demanding records pertaining to Minnesota’s “vouching” system for voter registration, pursuant to my authority under the Civil Rights Act of 1960.

This system seems facially inconsistent with the Help America Vote Act of 2002. We’ll see! pic.twitter.com/sqkqdqfGSF

— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) January 2, 2026

“The basis and purpose of this demand is to ensure Minnesota’s registration and voting practices are in compliance with federal law, particularly the minimum requirements under [the Help America Vote Act],” Dhillon said in the letter.

“The Department of Justice is particularly concerned with votes and registrations accepted on the basis of ‘vouching’ from other registered voters or residential facility employees … as well as other same day registration procedures,” she said.

The method of “vouching” to verify an address for voter registration exists in a handful of states and has been an option for decades in Minnesota. A registered voter may “vouch” for up to eight additional voters, but voters cannot vouch for someone else if they were registered to vote as a result of someone else vouching for them.

The renewed scrutiny over the voter registration method comes as the state’s handling of the child care fraud scandal has drawn national attention and received scathing criticism from the Trump administration.

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Simon defended the vouching system and the state’s overall voter registration system in an interview with Minnesota Public Radio earlier this week, saying the state’s voting systems are “fundamentally fair, accurate, honest, and secure.”

“It’s really a tiny amount anyway, and we have the systems in place at the local level,” Simon told the outlet. “All of these transactions are logged, by the way; you can see who vouches for whom, and you can see the attestation, you know, the sworn affidavit.”