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Headline: Democracy Docket, 4/17/2026
Yunior Rivas reports:
In its filing Friday, DOJ told the court it now had a factual reason to demand Minnesota’s voter registration list, including a recent report that a noncitizen may have voted in the 2024 election.
“This additional basis is a recent public report that alleged that [a] noncitizen … submitted a ballot in the 2024 federal election,” DOJ wrote. “The Division must verify that no such other individual is registered to vote, in violation of federal law.”
But the exhibit DOJ attached to support that claim didn’t mention the alleged incident at all. Instead, it was an unrelated January letter about Minnesota’s same-day voter registration system — a separate issue that has had nothing to do with DOJ’s case to seize Minnesota’s unredacted voter rolls.
Hours later, DOJ acknowledged the error and filed a “notice of errata,” replacing the exhibit with the intended letter. The corrected document still relied on a recent news report about a single alleged noncitizen voter as the basis for demanding Minnesota’s full voter rolls. [emphasis added]
