Project Veritas’s latest video showed a cash-for-ballots harvesting scheme in Minneapolis allegedly connected to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).
The Minneapolis police announced Monday night that they are evaluating these allegations.
The ballot harvesting scheme operates in three locations: Riverside Plaza apartments, senior citizen community at Horn Towers, and Minneapolis Elections and Voter Services office at 980 E. Hennepin Ave.
The last location “also functions as a voting location and ballot drop-off site.”
The video played a Snapchat of one “ballot broker” showing off all the absentee ballots in his car:
“Numbers don’t lie. Numbers don’t lie. You can see my car is full. All these here are absentees’ ballots. Can’t you see? Look at all these, my car is full. All these are for Jamal Osman… We got 300 today for Jamal Osman only,” said Liban Mohamed in a series of Snapchat videos posted July 1 and July 2 on his own Snapchat profile.Mohamed said he was collecting the ballots to help his brother win the city’s Aug. 11 special election for a vacant Ward 6 city council race—which was held the same day as the primary for Omar’s MN-05 congressional seat. Ward 6 is the heart of the city’s Somali community and the Omar’s political base.
But the shocker came when Omar’s name popped up from a former political worker:
The source said, “[Gainey], who’s working in Ilhan’s campaign is the one who is managing the voting place. They bring them. They line them. They put the open ballots in there and then they take them in and say, ‘Here,’ and the people mark [the ballots].”The practice is pervasive she said.“They’re accepting temporary addresses; they’re accepting all kind of shenanigans,” she said.“People that are showing their ID: ‘I moved 30 days ago, my ID’s not come back.’ ‘OK, just give us the last four of your social and tell us the address,’ and then somebody else will say ‘Yeah.’ They will send people who are helping them vote and saying: ‘Yeah, I can vouch for this madness,’” she said.
Minnesota law does not allow a third party to return more than three ballots, which the state Supreme Court upheld in July.
President Donald Trump described the actions of those in the video as “totally illegal.” He wondered out loud if the U.S. Attorney in Minnesota is looking into the allegations along with other of Omar’s “many misdeeds.”
Trump exclaimed that the Republicans “will win Minnesota because of her, and law enforcement.”
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