Obviously, I am not Mike Lindell, but he is out there doing patriotic things, of course, supporting our president, Donald J. Trump.
And I'm so proud of Mike, and I am so grateful that he has entrusted me to be with you here tonight.
Tonight, we are going to focus a little bit more on Minnesota, but I don't want you to despair because there's a lot of things here that you can learn from Minnesota that may apply to your state.
Tonight, I'll be talking with Susan Shogren-Smith, a great friend of mine, where we work together to battle a lot of different unique things that happen in Minnesota.
We'll give you a little taste of that, and we'll get an update from her in regards to guard the ballot program in Minnesota.
But first, as kind of our continuing series in protecting the elections, I want to make sure that everybody is aware of kind of the things that are out there.
And so, kind of when we kind of think back to kind of what are the important messages, I really, really want to make sure that I stress that voting in person is the best way that you can prevent fraud within the elections or any mistakes.
The chain of custody of voting in person is so important, especially when we look at recent cases here where, you know, this is a little bit of a side, but, you know, are elections secure?
Well, here, this Heinz County man finds a voting machine after it fell off of a delivery truck, and this is in 2023.
But the real concern is when you are voting by mail, we've seen the reports out there from the 2022 election where there was mail that was tossed into the ditch in California, and they investigated it, and then they tried to cover it up.
They tried to, you know, kind of say, oh, it's no big deal.
But if you have voted absentee already, please, please, please go verify with your county or your state to make sure that your ballot arrived.
And if not, please vote in person on election day.
There is no excuse.
Make sure you vote in person and please try to help those in your community that are unable to make the drive to the voting location.
Help them out.
Set up a plan, just like any disaster recovery plan.
But you know what?
It's good outreach in your communities to try and find out if there's anyone who's a little bit more senior that just needs a ride to make sure that they're able to vote.
And, you know, and even if you have to babysit a mom who's at home with kids, offer that service so that they can get out and vote.
Try to make this a community effort.
And, you know, let's celebrate this day.
We should treat it as a holiday.
And we don't necessarily need our state or federal government to basically declare it a holiday.
We can make it ourselves and we can start planning for this.
We have more than enough time.
However, it is starting to get a little scary because the reality is that the elections are just two weeks away, you know, starting tomorrow.
And so there is great hope for a lot of people.
There is some nervousness.
We see a lot of scare tactics out there that they're suggesting that we're not going to have election results.
Don't allow that to happen.
Make sure we have legitimate reasons that we are going to have proper election results.
But also, as part of this, when we look at what Susan Schogran-Smith is going to be kind of presenting tonight, we want to make sure that we're kind of thinking about those two buckets.
And those two buckets are so important when we kind of evaluate everything.
And so when we look at the statutes and rules that are set out there for each of our states, but then also the ability of the clerks to follow the law and the rules.
And part of that comes in, do they have proper training?
And kind of looking at the various state laws that are out there and especially rulemaking and additional guidance that are out there.
I take a look at Minnesota and that Secretary of State out there for decades has really been putting a lot of manuals out there that it's really easy for voters, election clerks, election administrators, even election judges to understand what their role is in the elections.
Even through the absentee process, the mail-in balloting process, election day, even voter registration, it's all well laid out.
And there are a lot of other states that have this as well, Colorado, New York, Michigan, Texas, California.
And so we're able to kind of see what's out there.
But then there's other states that don't have a lot of the stuff well vetted or well documented in the public purview to where we can actually see what is going on.
South Dakota, my own home state, doesn't do it very well.
Wyoming doesn't do it very well.
And so there is a lot of misinformation out there because we just don't know what we don't know.
But in these other states that are further along, there is an incredible amount of information out there that can help us better understand the elections.
And when we look at, for example, just kind of a rewind and how Susan and I got together, Susan, let's kind of talk about what we discovered in the 2020 election in Minnesota, where you filed several cases out there in Minnesota.
And how many cases, well, you filed a majority of the cases, and then there was one that you were co-author, but actually did most of the work.
And then the other attorney, she filed in to the Dakota County CD2 case because she was a witness to some of the stuff that we're going to present here tonight.
But go ahead.
Yeah, we filed a bunch of cases.
There really weren't very many lawyers that were willing to step into the process.
And so, you know, I was a mom.
I had 12 kids at home and I think worked really hard, got affidavits from every single person who wanted to be a part of it.
And I think we did actually a great job.
Our focus was really about restoring the trust and bringing transparency to the election process and the results.
There was a lot of data that just simply wasn't available until after the filing of the certification.
That was a huge issue.
And then there's a very quick timeline.
I think people don't really realize how the timelines work.
And so there's a very quick timeline over Thanksgiving week that everything has to be done.
It's very difficult.
You can't serve the candidates very effectively directly because most of them, their addresses aren't public, or if they are, they don't live there anyways.
And it's kind of a mess in Minnesota, a lot of those things.
There's a lot of things we could do to make it easily better, like just serve the candidates through the Secretary of State's office.
That right there would eliminate most of the challenges to election contests.
But we just learned that there's a lot of laws in Minnesota that actually are great laws.
It's just nobody follows them.
And so I think retrospectively, we just saw that.
And we had a ton of evidence that the laws weren't followed.
And we got more evidence as the Secretary of State put out data.
Then it became very clear that we were right, actually, about all of it.
But they just find and kind of make up rules how they throw things out.
And so none of the evidence was ever actually heard, even though we had photographs and affidavits and pictures.
And yeah.
So for us and for me, you and I, I think.
Go ahead.
Yeah.
So one of the pieces that I want to show the audience real quickly here are kind of three slides here, and then we'll come back.
Actually, it might be four slides.
But one of them that kind of starts it out, and you set the table correctly, where we were kind of under the gun in regards to Thanksgiving week during that time.
And so I had received a voter roll on November 29th, just after Thanksgiving, and started the analysis to kind of help you look at things.
And I was shocked and I called you and I'm just like, Susan, I cannot believe what I'm looking at here.
And I'm looking at this statute.
Do you think I'm right on this?
You know, does this help you in any way?
And so I'm talking to you and Jane Voles and other attorneys.
And it ends up centering around you and Jane Voles that were really filing the cases and the rest just kind of dropped away.
And even talking with a couple of the candidates, they were just kind of like flabbergasted by this.
And they're reading the statutes and they're like, wait a minute here, is this what I'm reading?
I'm like, I think Minnesota is a plain language statute state.
And so I then confer with you.
And then you're just like, yeah, it is that way.
And then so I do some additional research.
And I was in city government.
And that's kind of what I understood it to be because I had a couple of what I'll call legal run-ins with our city that kind of taught me.
And we had a good city attorney, absolutely gracious.
He was a wonderful gentleman.
And I was one of the first to do a drone ban.
And of course, that created lifelong lessons for me in regards to the way that the statutes would work in Minnesota.
And so I got a front row seat to that.
And so I really appreciated your tutelage to kind of explain things.
But so here's some of the early data that we looked at.
And I was just shocked.
And so these were kind of the early pieces of evidence where we had identified five days after they had certified the election, 25 days after the election, that there were 720,000 absentee ballots statewide that were not connected to a voter at this point in time in the voter histories.
And when we sit here and we look at some of the counties, you know, Hannibal County, the largest county, percentage-wise did better than the rest, you know, where they're representing close to a million people.
It's two congressional districts so that people can kind of have a basis of understanding.
17,000 absentee ballots not connected to a voter in the voter histories.
And then Carver County, one of the more conservative counties, was missing 33,000.
And then Dakota County to the south, this one was 154,000.
And it was such a simple action of clicking the button.
And then on the left-hand side, you can kind of see my red alert system for the state.
But the reality is here we are with the statute that you're basically looking at.
And this is where I'm calling you.
I'm like, am I reading this right?
Where it says, as the ballot boards, as they're receiving these ballots, the county auditor municipal clerk must immediately record that a voter's absentee ballot has been accepted.
But then also down here at the bottom, it's very specific that it's supposed to put it into the statewide voter registration system.
And that reality is that it was not happening in that case.
And so when we sat there and were kind of debating this between you, myself, the candidates, and we're just like, is this something that we can hang our hat on?
And absolutely it is because later within the statutes, these are considered criminal acts in some cases, but it's also as part of the election process.
When we looked at a case in 2019 from the Minnesota Voter Alliance, and you and I deep dive through that and you're like, okay, I need you from a technical standpoint, tell me what this is telling you.
And I'm like, it's telling me there's only one database.
But I also had to alert you that the Secretary of State lied to the Supreme Court because I have more database fields than what is stated here in the actual Supreme Court case.
And you're like, what?
And so you're sitting, so I send you a copy of an export with all the field names and a couple and in your voter registration record where so that you could compare to make sure that what I'm saying is the truth.
And so I send you the list of all of the voters in your house.
And then here's all the fields that I see there.
And you're like, wait a minute, these ones aren't in here.
And I'm like, no.
And I think I have an idea how this is working as well.
I think there's additional modules that are not described in here.
And that wasn't conveyed to the Supreme Court.
And the state statute doesn't allow it.
Right.
Simon says.
And so, yeah, so, okay, so that's really funny.
So you just said Simon says.
So the name of the Secretary of State is Steve Simon.
Yeah.
So this really isn't a game, but it sure appears to be because whatever he says goes.
And then we also had criticisms of another gentleman who basically said, I was completely wrong.
And there was a different database that we should have downloaded and we should have purchased to do this analysis.
But the reality is that's not correct because if we believe what is true over at the Supreme Court litigation of where the Minnesota Voter Alliance had sued Secretary Assimon, that's not the benchmark in statute and not supported by that very case itself.
And so that becomes very problematic.
Well, I think they both want to say that there's a different database they're using, yet you clearly see that these ballot boards are in fact documenting who voted.
And then over time, you see this sort of backfilling of information later on.
And so if it were true, they were using a different database, then there should have been zero in the one and all in the other, right?
So the narrative that they created just doesn't make any sense.
And our point all along has been, you know, you and I have spent thousands of hours, right, going through all these issues in the laws and reading plain language because we are a plain language state and nobody needs to be a lawyer to understand our laws.
They want you to think somehow that you do, but you don't.
And people can just read these statutes and apply the plain language.
It's not complicated.
And these words make sense.
And we just want the laws to be followed so that people can trust our elections again.
And the creation of the absentee ballot boards, which really removed the people from the process.
And that happened after the Norm Coleman debacle, which I would say it is a debacle.
I think that election was absolutely stolen using absentee ballot boards and the changing of the rules in the middle of the process.
And it doesn't make any sense it was allowed to happen.
And it certainly doesn't make sense that we codified all of that with new statutes that then aren't followed anyways.
So we have a mess in Minnesota with our absentee ballot boards.
People really aren't present and a part of that system.
And there's almost no way to get the people into that system outside of the guard the ballots law, which has been in existence since the 1950s.
And it's a very clear law.
But we have to bring trust back.
We have to bring the people back into the process.
We have to stop pretending that the elections belong to the government.
The elections belong to the people, not the government.
And the people have the right to be present throughout this entire process.
And nobody knows their communities better than the people that live in those communities.
And county employees that often don't live in those communities, who often aren't connected to those communities, are the worst people to be overseeing our elections in those local communities.
So guard the ballots is something that you and I have been talking about and not talking about publicly for a long time because it's really the right of the people and the candidates to work together to secure these elections.
And there's really nothing to fight about in the law, although I'm quite certain that people will fight about it because they don't want the people there.
They don't want the people to know the truth about what's happening in these elections.
So I don't know if I answered your question.
Yeah, yeah, you're absolutely right.
And so I want to take a pause here because some people are still stuck at you have 12 kids.
All right.
So I want to talk a little bit about Simon says and mom's law.
So when we look at plain language and the statute says must immediately, so as we put on our parental hats, I only had one son, so I didn't have as many opportunities for issues as you would have had with 12 kids.
So the reality is I just need to ask.
So under mom's law, when you would say clean your room immediately, was that 25 days after you made the statement?
So I think that we all should understand that when something says immediately, it means immediately as you're doing it, right?
So they receive a ballot.
When you receive a ballot, you then go to the database and you would say we received a ballot.
And when it says that you've accepted a ballot, it means that you immediately would say we've accepted a ballot.
And I think that's very clear.
And the intent of that law is to make sure that nobody can vote two times.
That's why it's immediately, right?
Because if you don't do it immediately, there is this possibility that people could vote again, right?
And so I let's make something very clear here because Minnesota is one of these states that you have 45 days of absentee voting.
You now have just instituted this election cycle, early voting.
And then to top it all off, you have same-day registration as well.
So Minnesota creates this unique environment where you really have no lockdown of the databases.
So here in South Dakota, today is our, well, it's already just passed three hours ago, but today is the last day of what a registration.
And so at least we're able to lock in our system and say, here is our list.
We can print it out and we're good to go.
But Minnesota is not afforded that because you have all of these vectors for intrusion and additional ballots into your system that just creates all sorts of issues.
And so this is why I think you're exactly right.
This whole must immediately, you know, we can't enter the data in later.
We have to clean our room right away.
We have to take out the garbage when mom tells us to.
We have to let out the dog now or he's going to piddle on the rug.
And we do have to pick up our clothes so we can get laundry done.
This whole thing of what Steve Simon is doing also kind of in the administrative rules where he has in statute, which is kind of a funny thing when it comes to voter histories.
And we saw this during the 2020 election.
We saw it again in 2022 with some of the same offenders that the voter histories, which they're allowed to do, get in 45 days after the election.
There were counties that asked for more time and they got right, right?
I think what we talked a lot about, yeah, we talked a lot about the biggest problem that isn't really reconcilable, I don't think.
And I'm talking retrospectively not going forward, right?
That the big problem that we saw was there are really clear deadlines meant to protect the ballots and the elections so that by the time the absentee ballot boards do their work, right, then it goes over to the precincts and there shouldn't really be an opportunity for any confusion.
That is why the ballot boards really were required and are required to do their job in a timely manner.
And actually, if you really read the law, it seems pretty clear to us then.
This was sort of the foundation of one of the things we were talking about back then is that you really shouldn't even be able to process a ballot until you've actually made the notation in the voter history, right?
Because it is really actually that documentation in the voter history that secures that ballot as being cast.
And then you prevent the disenfranchisement of another voter by potentially improperly accepting another ballot.
So I believe actually that they really do document properly the ballots they receive.
The real issue is the status of whether or not there actually are ballots properly cast that aren't properly recorded.
And we have no way of knowing that because the people are not allowed in the process.
And so there is a possibility that just ballots, votes are reported on election night and then later on are backfilled with voters.
We call them ready-to-launch voters, people that maybe vote, maybe don't vote, we don't know, because they don't let us in, right?
And so also, this is part of the case down in Dakota County where we identified during a post-election audit a lack of chain of custody that ballots were arriving in that white purse, not in a secured ballot box with seal numbers and all of the stuff.
And this was just, I mean, people laugh at this, but this is actually in your court filing to the state of Minnesota.
And it's just, you know, I mean, it's just like all of this stuff leads to the reasoning of why ballot guards are going to be so important.
But this is why poll watching is so important in other states if you have those as well.
Understanding the chain of custody of all of those election materials are so important.
So it's not just about the data.
It's about the physical paper.
It's about the physical ballots.
It's about the machines themselves, making sure that we're securing every step of the election.
I'm so proud of, we had to keep our mouths shut because when we ran into this and saw it during the 2020 election, as we're going through all of the statutes multiple times, and we're like, this is out there.
And then after we saw that Minnesota had changed to pure Democrat control, we're like, we can't bring this up to anybody because if anybody knows that this is out there, they'll get rid of it.
And so this was the perfect time as this because Minnesota has kind of ebbed in and out of play for being a potential swing state for the presidential election.
But then there's also a lot of close races within Minnesota that could change the trajectory of the control of the House because right now it's pure Democrat control, but it's by a razor-thin margin on the House side.
And so when we look at some of the evidence, we are seeing stuff right now that basically screams in 2024, we have to guard the ballots.
Now, for Susan, she's seen a couple of these slides ahead of time.
The other one I literally got done 15 minutes ago before the show took off.
And so she hasn't seen this yet.
But this is going to be shocking.
So everybody, put your drinks down, put your food down.
All the stuff that you've seen before, you're about to see some incredible things that are just absolutely amazing.
And I hate to put out there publicly because maybe it's a warning for Democrats to stop cheating.
But maybe that's a good thing as well because there are great people across the United States looking at this.
And so in five, four, three, two, one, here is the first one here.
And these are from the Secretary of State's office where you have been purchasing the data and I've been helping you with it.
And the Minnesota absentee cast ballots with no voter ID, when we sit here and we look at this particular race here in 14B and we see that there's already over 200 ballots, that one is screaming, that is out of the norm.
Why is that happening?
You know, so there are so many new voter registrations that are happening there and then they're casting an absentee ballot in person.
But this is definitely somewhere that is definitely targeted.
And then the next screen, this one is going to blow people's socks off.
This one here is the absentee ballots received week by week.
And when the people are out there going, what the heck?
That looks like an algorithm.
Yeah, it kind of does, doesn't it?
And this is new data that I had done 15 minutes before.
David, look at this one.
Are you going to show past one too?
Are you going to show how it happened in the past too, or just this one?
No, just this one here.
But we saw this in 2020 as well.
But what's incredible here is in that Senate District 50, they already have 18% of the vote in.
And I'm just going to tell you right now, nationwide, when we look at the L2 data of early returns throughout the United States, that is way outside of the norms.
And when we look specifically at, and we can see here that the age kind of range, what's cool here is you can kind of look at your state if they're in it.
And so when I looked at the dropdown and looked at Minnesota, we can see that in Minnesota, the over 65 is over 51% of the absentee ballots coming in.
But we also see that the minority groups, the Hispanic, the Blacks, the Asian, and other groups, they're not voting early absentee so far.
And so what I'm seeing here is that there is a potentiality in Minnesota that there may be a significant swing in the election.
You have a dynamic person running for U.S. Senate who's an African-American, but he's white because his last name's white.
He's Royce White.
And so there's a little bit of a fun there as well.
And you are now representing a group outside of the Royce White campaign where you were originally helping them out.
And now you have spread your wings to help out more campaigns with this initiative to guard the ballots.
And so now we have kind of the data, the history, the algorithms that we're seeing into these areas that are really concerning.
Now, some people may argue, well, the Democrats are just successful in these areas and these are areas that they're targeting.
Yes, possibly.
But there's something more to that because you're not going to keep going to the same districts week after week after week after week and just have it go in.
You would have more of a kind of an ebb and flow of activists hitting one particular area, getting done with that, going to another area, getting done with that.
And so you would traditionally see more of an even off when you look at various states across the country.
We're not seeing that in Minnesota, and when I compare it to South Dakota, South Dakota is a lot more even compared to what I'm seeing in Minnesota.
There is definitely a lot more of a concerted effort and we have a lot more ballot initiatives that make South Dakota a lot more richer, with abortion on the ballot, private property rights, the destruction of the party process by having open primaries all of that is in the South Dakota ballot.
So that's kind of what I'm seeing here, and so tell us more about the guard, the ballots.
What, who is this?
What candidates is this open to?
Obviously, this is nonpartisan yeah, so when I, when I approached Royce who's a phenomenal candidate, America First candidate he's he's really I mean truly one of the he gives clearly the best speeches we've ever heard in Minnesota about what it means to be America First and what it means to really be addressing that, the distinction of the responsibility of Congress versus state and local government and the real need for the people.
So when I approached Royce and I said to him that you know, I have this vision of the people are coming and we the people are coming, he embraced it immediately and you know we talked a lot about in the very beginning of this that, that these there were some things that were going to happen that were going to be far beyond really just one campaign, and Royce agreed to be a candidate that would be involved with guard the ballots, and so we worked really hard to get him him endorsed.
I think he definitely was an underdog.
People did not think that he would that, that he had a chance of of really even getting endorsed, because you know he's he's a complicated candidate with a complicated history and he's very open and honest about every issue that he's had in the past.
He talks really openly about it, about those things.
But we worked really hard to fight the nominations committee and make sure that he was given the opportunity to give a speech on the floor of the convention.
He got the endorsement.
We people did not think he had a chance.
A lot of people at the party really fought against him getting, you know, winning the primary.
There's a lot of interparty fighting and we just worked really hard on targeting candidate, you know, really targeting specific areas with Republican voters, because the primary is a whole different, whole different beast right than the general election.
And then you know, we just always knew That.
For me, the issue was going to be this issue of guarding the ballots and trying to get data and information, and that we needed a statewide candidate to do that.
And so it's been a little bit of a tricky transition.
And obviously, some people were not happy with my need to spend more time on some of these other issues.
But we really do need to kind of put our lives where our mouths are.
And it really is about not a candidate, but it's about we the people stepping up.
And so I'm really thankful to Royce for all the for letting me really get involved and help him get to this point.
And I think that he has a great chance actually to beat Amy Klobuchar.
And Guard the Ballots has is it's online.
There's a website called it's literally just guardtheballots plural.org.
And this website, if you go to it, and I don't know if you're going to pull it up or not, or if you just want me to keep talking.
After the commercial, what I want to do is break down some of the fun stuff.
And so thank you, Apollo.
Here is the website.
And we're actually, after the commercial, we're going to kind of open this up so that we can also explain in parallel what other states can do to understand the law, but also how this can relate to basically poll watchers in your state.
Now, Minnesota has this advanced piece, but it really is about gathering that evidence.
And so after the election, or sorry, after the commercial break, we'll come in and kind of talk about standing.
We're going to address that issue.
And then we're also going to kind of look at something that Weird Al kind of put out there: word crimes.
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The other thing with my great friend, Susan Schaugeren-Smith, she's always teaching me something.
And so today, when reviewing her website, I got another lesson that I really, really want to share with everybody out there.
And so we always ran into the term where standing, whether or not you have standing to file an election contest.
And so the reality of that is when we look at when we look at the slide here that I'm presenting here, Susan lays it out at one of the pages in her website where it talks about during and after any election.
This is Minnesota now.
And so we really need everybody to review their state statutes because here in Minnesota, it basically states any eligible voter may contest an election under Minnesota Statute 20902.
Such a voter would be a contestant.
A candidate in an election being contested by an eligible voter would be a contestant.
If they joined the eligible voter in the contest, then they would be a contestee if they oppose a voter's election contest.
Now, what's absolutely incredible about this is that this really clearly sets the stage Kind of as to what the limitations are for everybody across the country.
And so you really have to read through the laws to understand what role you, a voter, have when it comes to the elections.
You know, were your rights violated when it came to the voting rights in Minnesota when they allowed illegals to vote?
Same thing in any other state.
If the machines were not tested appropriately, were your voting rights trampled on for the contest.
And candidates, especially if you were a witness there during logic inaccuracy and you saw that they didn't test all of the ballots appropriately, that might be a legitimate contest for you, the voter, a group of voters, a party, and a candidate as well.
And so when we look at what they're doing out there, where they basically say, okay, this voter here, he's going to use a disability ballot and his ballots are going to be out barcode.
And mine, I'm going to fill out the ovals.
And we're only going to test one ballot out of this classification of voter, but yet we're going to test all 30 different ballots from my type of voter.
I'm sorry, but this little guy here, he just had his 14th Amendment protections under the U.S. Constitution violated.
We're supposed to have equal protection under the law.
And so both he and I have standing in that case because we weren't treated equally.
And so we need to make sure that we're standing up for everybody's rights.
And yeah, he's got some really awesome hair here.
But the reality is standing matters.
And so depending on what your state statutes say or may not say, because in most state statutes, the laws are to be liberally constructed so that they're supposed to be more encompassing, not exclusionary, correct?
So the law should be read from the perspective of like a grammarian, right?
That I believe that any person should be able to read the law and understand the law.
Lawyers should not be necessary at all because we can really look and see what these words mean.
And we're supposed to interpret it the way it's written.
And it's the job of the legislature to draft laws that say what they mean and mean what they say.
And they mean what they say based on when they were written.
And if the legislature says, oh, that doesn't mean that anymore, we're going to change the law, they can do that.
And if they don't do that, then it continues to be read the way it was written for what it meant.
And so, you know, we aren't supposed to have to need lawyers.
And that is a critical point in the law in Minnesota when it says that any voter can contest an election.
And I think it's just really important to understand, again, these elections belong to the people.
And disenfranchising any voter by an unlawful ballot being cast is no different than preventing someone from going to the polls, right?
It's literally the same thing with a different tactic.
And I believe that we talk a lot about disenfranchisement where people feel discouraged or prevented from going to the polls for whatever reason.
Actually, I think all across Minnesota, because we don't have polling locations anymore for many voters, particularly in outstate areas and rural areas where people are forced to mail in the ballots.
And we know because the post office is having such a problem, those people might be having to send their ballot in two weeks ahead of time, even though they would rather vote in person, but they might live three hours away from their polling location.
Meanwhile, in the city of Minneapolis, people literally live 100 feet from a balloting location and they got a mail there's all in absentee.
It's crazy, our system in Minnesota.
We've created a mess, I think.
And so, all these issues that we need to be looking at about how our voting system works are really legitimate.
And we are disenfranchising voters every day by allowing ballots to be cast in questionable circumstances where we don't have provisional balloting.
Once those ballots get stuck in a ballot box, it's game over.
And if those ballots were cast improperly by people who aren't eligible to vote in Minnesota, who don't meet the criteria, they don't actually have residency, you know, all those things.
We're just disenfranchising voters.
So, I think, you know, Break this issue.
Let's go back.
Let's go back to what you just said earlier, which was, and I've got the slide up there already, where the plain language of the statute above can be easily understood by the people.
And what's really great about your website is all of the areas that you put in quotes like in and any, you actually are kind of trolling them a little bit to basically say, All right, if you don't know what it is, you can click on it and we'll get you to the actual dictionary definition.
And so, what I kind of was talking about a little bit earlier is as soon as I saw this on your website, immediately what came to mind was Weird Al Yankovich's video out there, word crimes, and his little picture in there where it says, Don't be a moron.
We know what the plain language is.
And so, you are really giving them the assist that when you click on in, you bring them a little bit of help and basically define it for them.
I think it's one of the best trolling pieces I've ever seen in American politics.
And I definitely want to thank you for this because this whole plain language is so important that people understand it.
And so, this is where guarding guardtheballots.org is so important for people of other states to look at the premise of what you guys are doing.
And you can use this as a model for doing poll watching, but also looking at understanding the linguistics.
You know, the law, as you are pointing out, is supposed to be plain language.
It is supposed to be in reach of the voters, the population.
Because if you are at least have a base understanding of what the law is, you can prevent yourself from breaking it.
And it's especially important for election officials because when we look at election law, it sets the rules of the sandbox so we know what to expect.
You know, such as, hey, don't throw sand in another child's eyes.
Or if you're going to go down the slide, do it one at a time so that you don't slide into the back of somebody.
If you're doing a swing and one person at a time on the swing, don't push the swing so hard that it goes over the center pole.
Okay, I guess we all do that and we break some of the rules on that.
But when it comes to elections, this is more serious.
You know, it's similar to like banking.
You know, don't sit there and write forged checks.
Don't sit here and write false ballots.
Don't do all of this stuff.
And so, in order to establish the trust in the elections, you're exactly right.
It has to be rooted in the law, the rules.
And then the second part of that is how well did the election administrators follow the law and the rules so that everybody can plainly see that everything was done correctly.
Now, in Minnesota, you have another breaking story, which is out of Hannepin County.
The Republican Party of Minnesota, in essence, looked at their own list that they submitted to the Secretary of State, which was right around 1,500 volunteers or people that wanted to be named as election judges for the absentee balloting process.
And somehow miraculously, there were zero selected from that list, violating Minnesota statutes.
And so that is a complete failure of Minnesota, especially Hannepin County, where the law is very clear that they're supposed to have Republican election judges, but the county selected not.
And so it sounds like there's a great group of attorneys, Minnesota Voter Alliance, David Hann, who's the chair of the Republican Party, and other people that have come forward to basically say, no, this is a fundamental piece and you're not getting away with this because that represents two congressional districts out of eight in Minnesota in the state.
So in essence, one out of four, that's a quarter of the vote in the state.
And so that is a big, that is a big issue.
And so I'm proud of the awakening through the leadership of you and so many other attorneys now finally coming forward that are finally looking at elections saying, we do have some significant issues here in Minnesota.
And here we are going into the 2024 election.
And this particular law hasn't changed in over a decade, and yet they're violating it now.
So when did this not, you know, why did this, why are they doing this?
We have our, right, we have our beliefs as to what it is, but the reality is they're going to call us election deniers for that.
But the reality is the law is clear.
They're supposed to do this and they're not.
So in essence, that's election interference, plain and simple, by not having the proper bipartisan oversight of the elections in Minnesota is absolutely disgusting.
And so this is where guarding the ballots is part of this process as well.
And so hopefully what we're going to see in Minnesota is a lot more unifying forces of grassroots candidates, midline candidates that are running in the House, but also Royce White's leadership and his campaign.
And then hopefully some of the congressional candidates will jump on board of this as well.
Of course, I'm really paying attention to CD2 because for the last two election cycles, that one has had some weird phenomena in that race.
So I think, you know, if you, I don't know if you're going to show the website and how people can, how easy it is for people to go to the website.
And so candidates can go on the website and there's a place to contact us and they can just put in the send us a message that they want to participate.
And what, and by the way, this is not only Republican candidates.
Any candidate can say, I want to do it.
And then the voters, I don't know if you want to click on any one of the counties, just click.
We love our clickable maps online.
So if you click like county, anyways, you'll get to it.
Just click on any one of them and it'll take you to, so this is Cooching County.
It talks about it's in CD8.
It's got its county code.
And if you go down, it lists all the candidates that these people will be able to vote for that are either federal or state candidates.
If there are any candidates that would be like county commissioners, soil and water people, city candidates that are nonpartisan and they want to join, they can contact us and we will add them to the list.
But if you click the list, we have the election officials along the side.
We have all the information where you can contact them.
If you have questions, you can contact your county.
So it's all right there on the side.
Pretty much everything you need to know about the contacting the people at your counties.
And if you have questions, also early voting locations are there for people.
You can go right into your county and you'll see where you can go and early vote and contact them.
There's a little red box if you are interested in volunteering to help guard the ballots.
A candidate or a person who's contesting an election has the right to have agents to guard the ballots.
And if you click that little red box, it'll take you to just a series of questions.
So if you go to any one of the counties again and click on it, and there's, if you go down just a little bit, you'll see that red box with the shield.
You can click on that box and it'll take you to questions and you just fill out the information.
That's really for us to be able to contact you and make sure that we are, and whatever candidate you'd be representing, they're going to need to contact you.
So you fill it out.
It will go right to a Google Doc for your county, right, for your county.
And obviously, it's not going to fill it out.
But if you go on to the next set, it'll give you the ability to choose, if there's a major party you want to help, if there's a minor party candidate you want to help, you just can fill in the boxes.
So it's very simple.
It goes right to a Google Doc, and then we'll be able to forward the information to the candidates that you're interested in helping.
So that's the plan.
It's really that simple.
And then we'll be providing people with information about what we're really looking to do.
The statute says that the candidates have the right to put the demand in for a 24-hour day.
Yeah, so there you go.
You just can click, you know, which party, major parties, minor parties.
Look at, I don't know about the Justice for All Party, it should be down lower, but it's okay.
You just click what you want to do.
You can click more than whatever you want to do.
You just click them.
And then you can also put comments in.
If there's a specific nonpartisan candidate, whatever, you can just put it in the comment box.
And then when you click, it'll just send the information.
And so once you do that, then that'll trigger us kind of providing you with information, following up with you about the candidates you're choosing, etc.
And what we're really looking at for this effort of guarding the ballots is that this will be a non-this is not a litigious thing.
The candidates don't need to file any legal documents to do this.
This is just they have the right to say, I'm going to guard the ballots.
They have to provide notice to their opponents and they have to serve the demand on to the county official.
There is nothing in the law about fees being charged to candidates.
And that's really important because there are rules about actual contests and counting of ballots.
If you're going to have recounts, there's issues there, but not in this particular statute.
And what we really want to be able to do is have people, the actual people, the voters, present and being able to, particularly at certain times of the day, to get information so that we can verify that we know exactly how many ballots are going into these absentee ballot boards.
Because the fact is, is that we have now multiple election cycles where the numbers simply don't add up.
And either people aren't following the law or they aren't following the law.
There isn't any argument about they are following the law.
They either aren't documenting things properly or there really aren't the votes that are being reported.
It's either one or the other.
But in no circumstance do we have the last two election cycles where we can consistently say that the law was followed.
Because if the law were followed, then all of the absentee voters would have voter histories that indicate the votes happened.
And I think we can talk about the 700,000 not properly documented in 2020, but in 2022 it was over 250,000 weren't documented.
And that is unacceptable.
And the idea that any election is canvassed and certified when there isn't a reconciliation of the number of votes cast with the number of voter histories is it's inexcusable in our society today.
And it is why we don't trust our elections.
And it's absolutely legitimate for us to demand that these people are doing their job and that the people are able to verify it in a timely, in a timely manner because it's required, right?
So I think that is someday, Rick.
What we've talked about for four years will be true: that there will be a requirement that the Secretary of State create before they certify the election, an actual database of that election where it literally matches, where every precinct can be coordinated with the number of voter histories across the state.
And that will be a permanent record of the election that anybody can go through and document that it was accurate, right?
Right.
We don't have that now.
So, the important message here is that number one, we need you to research standing in the election so that you understand as you read the election laws.
Number two, it is so important to remember: it is not for us to prove that there are issues with the election.
It is the election officials' responsibility to ultimately prove that there were no issues with the election.
And that needs to be done before the county and the states canvass their elections.
That is the bar that we should be having, and that is where we need to be.
Those are not unreasonable.
Remember, this is our country, this is our state, this is our county, and everything starts at a local level.
And so, some of you, as you look at these elections, may have to step up and actually run.
So, thank you, Mike Lindell, for letting me host here tonight.
Thank you, Susan Shoger and Smith.
It is absolutely wonderful to talk with you again and find out more at guardtheballots.org.
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