RNC puts Walz admin on blast for not explaining how noncitizens got on Minn

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The Republican National Committee called out Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s administration for failing to explain how noncitizens made it onto voter rolls in the state.

The Minnesota Department of Public Safety was on the receiving end of a scathing letter from the RNC and the Minnesota GOP after its response to communication last month regarding a noncitizen who was legally in the state coming forward to reveal getting a primary ballot despite not being registered to vote.

In a response this week, Minnesota Department of Public Safety Commissioner Bob Jacobson wrote back to Kevin Cline, election integrity counsel for the Republican National Committee, and David Hann, chairman of the Minnesota Republican Party. But his letter outlining the process did not hit the mark for the Republicans who responded with another missive on Thursday.

They noted how Walz, now the Democratic vice presidential nominee, had signed the “Driver License for All” bill into law last year, allowing illegal immigrants to receive driver’s licenses. Soon after, he signed the “Democracy for the People Act” which allows for automatic voter registration through the Department of Public Safety Driver and Vehicle Services Division (DVS).

“While we appreciate your explanation of how the Driver and Vehicle Services Division (‘DVS’) is supposed to function to ensure each applicant is a U.S. citizen, your response failed to explain how noncitizens made it through that process and ultimately made it onto Minnesota’s voter rolls,” Cline and Hann wrote in the letter this week, according to Fox News Digital.

“This is no hypothetical; lawfully present noncitizens were registered to vote through your department, and Minnesota voters deserve transparency from your department to understand how this failure occurred and how it is being addressed,” they added.

“This issue is especially concerning since the chain of events leading to implementation of Minnesota’s AVR system, put in place by Governor and Vice-Presidential Candidate Tim Walz, gives the impression it was put in place to facilitate registration of noncitizens,” the letter continued. “Minnesota’s voter registration system is clearly vulnerable to illegal voter registrations in its current form.”

Commissioner Jacobson informed Cline and Hann that DVS was conducting “a thorough, manual review” of all eligible records since the law went into effect in 2023 “to ensure a fair and secure election this fall.”

In their response, Cline and Hann told Jacobson it was “worrisome that your department is only now conducting a review of voter records identified as eligible for automatic voter registration (‘AVR’).”

“This type of review should have been completed multiple times on a consistent schedule since AVR’s implementation,” they wrote. “That your department is only now beginning the review process suggests it is being done because our previous letter exposed the flaws in the AVR system and highlighted noncitizens on the rolls.”

RNC Chairman Michael Whatley called out Walz for being “completely aligned with Kamala’s radical agenda, opening the invasion at the border and giving illegal aliens free healthcare, free tuition, and driver’s licenses.”

“This is a clear plan by the Democrats, as they continually put non-citizens first and Americans last. We are holding Walz and his administration accountable and demand a full review and removal of the non-citizens they have allowed on the voter rolls,” he said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “Minnesotans, and Americans, deserve much better than the cancelation of their votes by Kamala and Walz.”

Jacobson was asked to provide “full and in-depth answers” about “when were the citizenship checks outlined in your September 3, 2024, letter put into place.” In addition, Cline and Hann asked “When will your ‘thorough, manual review’ begin, what will that review consist of, and when will it be completed.”

“Will you share the results of this manual review with the public?” they asked.

“Minnesota voters should not have their votes diluted because your department failed to filter out noncitizens from the automatic voter registration system,” the letter concluded. “Mistakes have clearly been made in the design and/or implementation of the AVR system, but it is not too late to provide transparency and to address the issues before the election this November.”

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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.