Minnesota fraud case is 'canary in the coal mine' for government systems — including elections, lawyer warns

Fox News ^ | January 27, 2026 | Emma Colton

[MinorityRepublican]

A Minnesota fraud scandal is a "canary in the coal mine" for how easily swindles can seep into government systems — including election administration — Republican election attorney Justin Riemer told Fox News Digital.

"What you've seen happen in Minnesota and now similar fraudulent schemes in other states, this should be very much a canary in the coal mine for other governmental processes," Riemer told Fox News Digital in a Zoom interview in January. "Which would include our voter registration and election processes. And it's not somehow immune to the type of corruption that we've seen in Minnesota and in other places."

Riemer leads Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (RITE), a legal nonprofit that fights court efforts from a "well-funded network of activists" working to "undermine elections and democracy." He previewed that RITE is readying an investigation into Minnesota's election system to see if it has potentially faced fraud similar to the sweeping multiyear, COVID-19-era schemes currently under scrutiny.

Riemer framed Minnesota as an early test case for broader concerns he believes are building ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, particularly around noncitizen registration and voting safeguards.

"They've definitely opened up opportunities for noncitizens to register. And honestly, there's times where noncitizens are being unwittingly registered," Riemer said, before pointing to an instance that unfolded in 2025 in the Last Frontier State — Alaska.

"It's happened in Alaska, actually, where you have two noncitizens who, by no fault of their own, were registered through some sloppy state automatic voter registration process, which essentially sucks in anyone that goes to the DMV into the registration system without any sort of voluntary registration on the part of the noncitizen," he said.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government
KEYWORDS: crime; fraud; minnesota; scandal; theft

[JZelle]

That canary done died. Long ago.

[Steely Tom]

Apparently a large fraction of our population believes the United States should be the only country in the world without any borders.

At the same time as we become the most generous welfare state in the world.

[MinorityRepublican]

Apparently a large fraction of our population believes the United States should be the only country in the world without any borders.

That is true. And thats a winning issue for JD Vance in 2028.

[Steely Tom]

And thats a winning issue for JD Vance in 2028.

One would think so.

[Liz]

Republican election attorney Justin Riemer told Fox News Digital: “Minnesota’s govt fraud and similar fraudulent schemes in other states, is a harbinger for other governmental processes, including our voter registration and election processes. These processes are not immune to the type of corruption seen in Minnesota and in other places.”

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Riemer leads “Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections” (RITE), a legal nonprofit that fights court efforts from a “well-funded network of activists” working to “undermine elections and democracy.” He previewed that RITE is readying an investigation into Minnesota’s election system to see if it has potentially faced fraud similar to the sweeping multiyear, COVID-19-era schemes currently under scrutiny.

Riemer framed Minnesota as an early test case for broader concerns he believes are building
ahead of 2026 midterms, particularly around non-citizen registration and voting safeguards.

[minnesota_bound]

The democrat party cannot win elections without massive fraud plus they always manage to siphon millions into their bank accounts.

[MinorityRepublican]

We have to assume that the elections are not honest in Minnesota.

If they refuse monitoring, we can refuse to seat their Representatives in the 120th Congress.

[Liz]

We have to assume w/ near-certainty that Minnesota elections are dishonest.
If they refuse monitoring, we can refuse to seat their Representatives in the 120th Congress.

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A member may be refused a seat if the House or Senate finds that fraud or severe irregularities in the election process make it impossible to determine the true winner. The House or Senate can refuse to seat a representative-elect through an “exclusion” process, which requires only a simple majority vote.

Based on Article I, Section 5 of the U.S. Constitution, each chamber judges the qualifications, elections, and returns of its members, and can exclude them if they fail to meet age, citizenship, or residency requirements, or if the election itself is deemed tainted by fraud.

[Vaduz]

Not so sure it’s the government systems it’s the greedy incompetent DEI corwd that are in charge of it and to little oversight of the system.

Fraud doesn’t happen by it’s self it requires help to do it.

Presidents come and go but they are always there for a life time job and easy money.