O'Keefe, others go undercover to register voters under Minnesota 'voucher' law: 'Your the ID'

Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe went undercover along with other reporters to attempt to register people to vote under Minnesota's "voucher" system. 

Under Minnesota law, a registered voter can sign an affidavit affirming that another individual resides in the same precinct, allowing him or her to register to vote without presenting any proof of residence. The law allows the registered voter to vouch for up to eight other people. 

O'Keefe and other independent journalists dressed in traditional Muslim attire and entered polling locations in Minneapolis on Tuesday. O'Keefe said he told poll workers that the people he was with were unregistered and asked the workers about identification. 

O'Keefe said he was repeatedly told that as a registered voter, he could register up to eight voters by vouching for them. When he pressed one poll worker about identification requirements, O'Keefe said, the poll worker told him, "You're the ID." 

"We wanted to put the process to an extreme real-world test and document what election workers would tell us when confronted with the scenario firsthand. The purpose wasn't simply to ask what Minnesota law says on paper," O'Keefe wrote in a post on X about the scenario. 

O'Keefe added that some poll workers did grow suspicious and scrutinized what he and the others were doing. 

"But across the locations captured in our investigation, we documented workers explaining how Minnesota’s vouching process could be used to establish residency for people registering at the polls without standard identification," O'Keefe wrote.