Steve Simon

It’s unhelpful to have political leaders, including the secretary of Homeland Security, hinting at imprisoning election administrators who don’t do what they want,” Simon told Votebeat. “That’s just not helpful.

It’s pretty clear states are almost entirely on their own this election cycle and cannot rely on the federal government for election assistance,” said Simon.

Minnesotans value democracy and they’ve proved it once again by showing up to vote in record numbers.

I certainly understand why reports of agents of the federal government at the polls would alarm people, especially here in Minnesota, given what we’ve all gone through over the last several months. So, I want to say we are not taking…

This has been done the last several election cycles under multiple presidents, including President Biden. And Minnesotans may well have voted at a polling place with a federal observer there and not even noticed.

Unfortunate distraction.

There’s been a real rupture in the relationship between the federal government and the states over voter security.

That help has all but vanished.

It’s a good thing to ask tough questions of your government.

What you don't want out of the system is innocent people to be fingered as illegal voters.

I don't think most people, most Americans, think that if they give to an elections administrator for voter registration purposes, sensitive data like a full or partial Social Security number, that it's going to end up in some sort of giant…

One thing that would help is if someone at the federal government would come out and categorically say, 'No, no, no, stop the presses, stop everything. You'll never have to worry about that. That's not something we would ever consider…

You have to use your imagination to consider and plan for the most extreme scenario.

The Biden administration has created new safeguards to reduce the potential for this fraud, but this legislation that is supported by our committee would build on this effort, making convicted fraudsters ineligible for Federal small…

I'm concerned and alarmed at what looks like a retreat from the anti-disinformation mission.

We're here because in 2016 a foreign government — Russia — tried to tamper with our stuff.

Artificial intelligence is not a threat to American democracy in and of itself, but it is an emerging and powerful amplifier of existing threats.

With our unwavering call for confirmation of Peng's safety along with a full, fair and transparent investigation, without censorship, into her allegation of sexual assault. This is an issue that can never fade away.

It seems reckless and irresponsible.

We want it to be as small as possible. And again, those are not just ballots. It is not just as called detached clinical thing. It is not a pile of paper. It is people's votes.

Making sure we have an even playing field no matter where a voter lives in Minnesota is very important.

As Senator Klobuchar alluded to, Minnesota is proudly old school. We have paper ballots, and that is the bedrock of our system in Minnesota.

We passed that test, which is great. But we know and we found out after the election that Minnesota was one of the 21 states that was targeted by elements acting at the behest of the Russian Government.

In my judgment, election security in general, and cybersecurity in particular, poses the number-one threat to the integrity of our elections.