Steve Simon: “We're here because in 2016 a foreign government — Russia — tried to tamper with our stuff.”

Our office will not be deterred and will continue to support the thousands of election officials across the state as they administer elections to their communities.

These indictments affirm the fact that noncitizen voting is a vanishingly rare crime.

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.

That help has all but vanished.