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

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

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.

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

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.