{"id":1662284,"date":"2022-09-28T11:50:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T15:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1662284"},"modified":"2022-09-28T11:50:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T15:50:26","slug":"six-minnesota-counties-have-515-duplicate-registrations-on-voter-rolls-watchdog-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/six-minnesota-counties-have-515-duplicate-registrations-on-voter-rolls-watchdog-alleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Minnesota Counties Have 515 Duplicate Registrations on Voter Rolls, Watchdog Alleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsix-minnesota-counties-have-515-duplicate-registrations-on-voter-rolls-watchdog-alleges%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1662284&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Six weeks before the midterm elections, six Minnesota county election officials are alleged to have failed to remove 515 duplicate registrations from the voter rolls in their jurisdictions, according to a complaint by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), a watchdog organization dedicated to ensuring lawful and fair elections.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2020, the continuing failure of many states to clean up inaccurate voter rolls led PILF to pronounce the American election system to be in a \u201ccritical condition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a study of the voter rolls of 42 states, PILF analysts found that 37,889 duplicate registrants appear to have voted twice from the same address in the 2018 election.<\/p>\n<p>The same report claims that 349,773 dead people remained on the rolls of 41 of the states.<\/p>\n<p>The foundation\u2019s investigators also found that, in the 2018 election, 8,360 registrants appear to have voted in two states.<\/p>\n<p>PILF filed\u00a0the first formal complaint\u00a0on Sept. 26 against an election official in Nicollet County in northeastern Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Government records examined by PILF showed that two people have two different voter registration numbers, despite having the same year of birth and address.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of these apparent duplicate registrants \u2026 voted twice in the 2020 election \u2026 Alarmingly, [the man] is a convicted criminal and has been committed as mentally ill and dangerous,\u201d said PILF in a Sept. 26 statement.<\/p>\n<p>According to PILF, the serial voter has a long record of criminal convictions.<\/p>\n<p>J. Christian Adams, PILF\u2019s president said, \u201cDuplicate registrations give people the opportunity to vote twice. It is alarming that a career criminal \u2026 had the ability to vote twice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe only had that opportunity because Minnesota election officials were not removing duplicate registrations as required by federal law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a second complaint filed on Sept. 27, PILF analysts allege that 73 voters in Dakota County in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six weeks before the midterm elections, six Minnesota county election officials are alleged to have failed to remove 515 duplicate registrations from the voter rolls in their jurisdictions, according to a complaint by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), a watchdog organization dedicated to ensuring lawful and fair elections. 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